Top 100 Believe Lies Quotes
#1. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
Orrin Woodward
#2. Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#4. The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
Phil Ochs
#5. Oftentimes it's easier for lunatics to attract impassioned followers than it is for sensible people to get people to listen to reason. People are often more willing to believe lies than the truth. Lies can be made to sound pleasant. The truth, by its very nature, isn't always so attractive.
Terry Goodkind
#6. Children are easily taught, for they readily accept and believe lies told by their elders.
Dee Hock
#7. The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies.
LeCrae
#8. Satan is behind the theory of evolution. Satan hates God and us. Satan is the father of all lies. So he wants nothing more than to make every human being alive believe lies about God, ourselves and how and why we exist.
Lisa Bedrick
#9. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
Marilyn Monroe
#10. One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#11. Denial is a powerful thing. It makes you believe lies.
Ellen Hopkins
#12. With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.
Billy Graham
#13. The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese
#14. - and there, on the table under her bedroom window, lies the voice that has set her dreaming again. Fragments of a life lived a long, long time ago. Across a hundred years the woman's voice speaks to her - so clearly that she cannot believe it is not possible to pick up her pen and answer.
Ahdaf Soueif
#15. At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.
Thomas Hughes
#16. When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
Don Miguel Ruiz
#17. There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
Agnes Macphail
#19. Promises bind our kind as surely as iron chains or ropes of human hair. The fae never swear by anything we don't believe in. We don't ask for thanks and we don't offer them; no promises, no regrets, no chains. No lies.
Seanan McGuire
#20. The truth of who you are and what you believe is projected in your behavior. Everything else, either positive or negative, is a mix of stories, lies, delusions, and manipulations.
Steve Maraboli
#21. You possibly believe I keep the glue Of lies for Happiness's in a broken jar?
Henrik Ibsen
#22. It's not the lies that hurt people. It's the willingness of everyone else to believe them ...
Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.
Muriel Barbery
#24. The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.
Walter Brueggemann
#25. Be careful of the lie you believe about yourself, sooner or later, you will be convinced of it.
Saji Ijiyemi
#26. Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."
The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?
Sarah MacLean
#27. The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.
James Russell Lowell
#28. The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yangming
#29. If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.
Bill Brandt
#30. Lies are served like a fine delicacy. But beware, the truth of it all will sour, lodge in your throat, and choke your very existence if you continue to believe them.
Jason E. Hodges
#31. It is a mistake to believe that a thought system based on lies is weak. Nothing made by a child of God is without power. It is essential to realize this, because otherwise you will be unable to escape from the prison you have made.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#32. The library has a robust collection of what I call non-cuddly hate lit. This is one of my favorite things about working here: If you believe censorship is poison, here lies paradise.
Josh Hanagarne
#33. Nope,' Jamie said without hesitation, which is how I knew he was lying. But I understood why. Sometimes lies are easier to believe.
Michelle Hodkin
#34. Miss Marshall spent her life daring those more powerful than her to swat her down. The hell of it was, her determination was some kind of contagion. He could feel it infecting him, making him believe. Making him tell himself lies like 'I could do some good' and 'I want her forever'.
Courtney Milan
#35. The best lies to tell," said Jane, "are the ones people want to believe.
Jasper Fforde
#36. I believe true evil lies in actions. In deliberate harmful acts.' 'Spoken
Ian C. Esslemont
#37. I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.
Roger Zelazny
#38. his father was right about one thing, at least, when he'd said that lies could run around the world before the truth could get its boots on. And it was amazing how people wanted to believe them.
Terry Pratchett
#39. I so want to believe him, but right now even his touch feels like a lie.
Emily Hainsworth
#40. Think about that: 81 percent of Americans believe that Obama lies to them at least 'now and then' on 'important matters.'
Marc Thiessen
#41. When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.
Yiyun Li
#42. I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.
Anthony Geary
#43. I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew.
Joseph Muscat
#44. But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.
Dick Francis
#45. Your success lies in your ability to believe in yourself
Mayur Ramgir
#46. You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#47. The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything - except the truth.
Rick Riordan
#48. A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.
Anna Quindlen
#49. I have three younger siblings, and used to tell them an awful lot of lies when they were growing up. The best thing about being a writer is that now I can say that my lies were all in the name of literary creativity. Unfortunately, my brothers and sister don't believe me.
Marie Rutkoski
#50. [Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.
Thomas Huxley
#51. He wanted to live in a house built on delusion, would rather believe in a million lies than face one truth.
- Seven circles around the sea, by Mordove Senia
Marie Lu
#52. She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know.
Alice Walker
#53. Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.
Frank Herbert
#54. We should never, ever believe life - or history holds no surprises for us. That was lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth."
"Which truth?"
"Any truth. All truth." her voice was solemn
Kay Hooper
#55. While boys are taught that the things that make them men
good men
are universally accepted ethical ideals, women are led to believe that our moral compass lies somewhere between our legs. Literally.
Jessica Valenti
#56. Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. That's the crazy things about lies, you start to believe them yourself. (pg. 342)
Jodi Picoult
#58. You lie," he said. "All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it ... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.
George R R Martin
#59. Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.
Ray Lewis
#60. I believe that beauty lies in what makes you feel happy.
Katrina Kaif
#61. RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions ... Breitbart reminds us why we must fight for our country's future by staying true to core values and never retreating.
Sarah Palin
#62. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
Terry Pratchett
#63. I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.
Bela Karolyi
#64. We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.
Michael Helm
#65. Once upon a time, something terrifying lived in the woods. Or perhaps the woods were terrifying. Or perhaps the whole world is poisoned with wickedness and lies, and it's best to learn that now.
No, Fyrian, darling. I don't believe that last bit either.
Kelly Barnhill
#66. I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.
Charles Spurgeon
#67. Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.
Fred Van Lente
#68. The only lies that are true are the ones that you believe.
Colby Buzzell
#69. Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?
A.S. King
#70. How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Karl Kraus
#71. In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.
Terry Goodkind
#72. The hardest thing is to go on living and not to believe in one's own lies.
Albert Camus
#73. Charlie had always been a sucker for this part ... the first days. The days when you let yourself believe the lies ... Not just that there's someone who truly sees you ... truly understands you ... to your soul ... but that you even want them to. That's the sweetest lie, the one you tell yourself.
Ed Brubaker
#74. Tell me pleasant lies, and I will believe them before I throw them away.
Dawn Kurtagich
#75. You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.
John Simm
#76. Funny how we believe our own lies.
Anonymous
#77. It's hard to believe that the truth lies within us. What about the churches, temples, mosques, bibles and scriptures? They offer comfort. If they cause you discomfort, toss them.
Art Hochberg
#78. He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot
#79. I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but that does not mean I am confused about where truth lies.
S.J. Parris
#80. The strength of my country lies in the huts of the poor; in the villages; in the youth, mothers and sisters; in the farmers ... I believe in your strength and hence I believe in the future of our country.
Narendra Modi
#81. When you search for the truth, you begin to believe in the search and lose sight of the truth.
Chloe Thurlow
#82. Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.
Miguel Ruiz
#83. maybe we're playing the strangers ... maybe we pretend hiding who we are and how we feel but at the end ... hope we won't believe our lies ... hope we'll not forget about each others ... one day
Zineb
#84. Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
E. M. Forster
#85. When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
Johnny Depp
#86. I close my eyes and press my face into his shirt and howl against him, liquid agony pouring from me. He smooths my hair from my face and continues to murmur, but he never shushes me, never tells me to stop. Never tells me it'll be all right. He knows life too well to believe such lies.
Aprilynne Pike
#87. Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.
Robert Payne
#88. This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln
#89. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.
Neil Gaiman
#91. I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
Ken MacLeod
#92. Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.
Ezra Taft Benson
#94. I believe in persevering. If you persevere, success lies ahead of you.
Liu Yang
#95. It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.
John Grisham
#96. The main thing is that I believe myself when I lie. The hardest thing in life is to live and not lie ... and ... and not to believe your own lies, yes, yes, that's it precisely!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#97. For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#98. The high is what you crave, what you would kill for... and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it's to late to stop.
H. Alazhar
#99. But no one gets lost - the hand of the merciful God always lies on the heads of courageous men and women, those who dare to be different because they believe in their dreams.
Paulo Coelho
#100. I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise you. It can survive the odds against it, all sorts of contradictions, and certainly any skeptic's rationale of relying on proof through fact.
Amy Tan
