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“Wherever there is the slightest possibility for the human mind to know, there is a legitimate problem of science. Outside the field of actual knowledge can only lie a region of the vaguest opinion and imagination, to which... men too often... pay higher respect than to knowledge.”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Does not the beauty of the artist's work lie for us in the accuracy with which his symbols resume innumerable facts of our past emotional experience? ... [A]esthetic judgment... how exactly parallel it is to the scientific judgment.”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) first seen 1815 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introductory. Pearson refers the reader to William Wordsworth's preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1815) "General View of Poetry".
“In ordinary geometry a surface is conceived as a locus of points; in Lie's geometry it appears as the totality of all the spheres having contact with the surface.”
Felix Klein (1849–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has been the final aim of Lie from the beginning to make progress in the theory of differential equations ...”
Felix Klein (1849–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have made me so rich, oh God, please let me share Your beauty with open hands. My life has become an uninterrupted dialogue with You, oh God, one great dialogue. At night, when I lie in my bed and rest in You, oh God, tears of gratitude run down my face, and that is my prayer.”
Etty Hillesum (1914–1943) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 18 August 1943, p. 640
“Painting is the most beautiful lie.”
Kees van Dongen (1877–1968) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in: Modern Dutch painting: an introduction, Netherlands Information Service, (1960), p. 26
“I lie back. They've "refurbished" the room. I loathe the word, its blunt sound (as if someone with a cold were trying to say "furnished"), and don't say it without irony.”
Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Socialism is founded on a lie -- the premise that man knows more than he in fact does know.”
Leonard E. Read (1898–1983) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leonard Read Journals, September 18, 1959
“He was accustomed to questioning an essentially impassive universe. The physical world might be maddeningly close-lipped about its secrets, but it didn’t lie, and it never actively tried to deceive you.”
Michael Swanwick (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hitler: To what extend the whole existence of his [Jewish] people is based on a continuous lie is shown incomparably by THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION.”
Will Eisner (1917–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Graphic novelist: Don’t you feel foolish accepting that lie?”
Will Eisner (1917–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has been raining for a whole month and I lie in bed in the morning like one drunk or ill, refusing to get up. Suddenly I hear a chorus of birds announcing a clear day. Quickly I pull aside the curtain, push open the window and see the beautiful sun shining and glistening and the forest looks like having a bath. Ah, is this not happiness?”
Jin Shengtan (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What earthly use are these Confucian graphs? Masters and doctors lie curled up and wilt. Why not take lessons and become a clerk? At night champagne, at break of day cow's milk!”
Trần Tế Xương (1870–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem 71 in An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems, trans. Huỳnh Sanh Thông (Yale University Press, 1996),
“Let me tell you, world, I—do—not—believe! If a thousand challengers lie beneath your feet, Count me as number one thousand and one.I don't believe the sky is blue: I don't believe in thunder's echoes; I don't believe that dreams are false: I don't believe that death has no revenge.”
“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.”
James Franck (1882–1964) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Memorandum to President Roosevelt (July, 1944).
“Once U.S. prisons are recognized to be a system of enslavement, and the lie is exposed that slavery in Amerika was ever abolished, the abusive conditions that pervades them makes perfect sense.”
Kevin Rashid Johnson (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“1. Be fair and honorable in your business dealings. It's the only way that you and your employees can leave a legacy to be proud of. 2. Never lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. The culture of your organization starts with you. Own your lapses in judgment. It happens to everyone. Correct the problem and return to being a person of good character.”
William H. McRaven (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]e've got to break this equation of "I'm right, you're evil. So everything you do is suspect, everything you say is a lie, your facts are fake news." Because that is an acid on politics. We've got to get rid of that.”
Mike Murphy (political consultant) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Elex Michaelson (2018)
“To say that hunger happens in Brazil is a big lie. People don't eat well and get sick. That I agree. Now go hungry, no. You do not see poor people on the streets with a skeletal physique, as we see in some other countries around the world. To say that there is hunger in Brazil is a populist discourse to try to win popular sympathy, nothing more than that.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To foreign journalists on 19 July 2019. Bolsonaro Says Hunger in Brazil Is a Lie. Folha (22 July 2019); Bolsonaro says claims of hunger in Brazil 'a big lie'. France 24 (19 July 2019).
“When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.”
Austin Grossman (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The lover of romance may lie in the sun, caring not for the time of day and content to watch the butterflies that cross his blue sky on the way from one flower to another. But the historian is an entomologist who must be stirring. He must catch the moths, which are his facts, in the net which is his memory, and he must fasten them upon his paper with sharp pins, which are dates.”
Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spare me four things– and say after that what thou pleasest– do not lie to me for liars have no judgment, and do not answer me regarding what I don not ask thee for it is a distraction from what I do ask thee, and do not be extravagant in my praise for I know myself better then thou, and do not incite me against my subjects for verily clemency unto them is more needful for me.”
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (646–705) said by 705 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird’s beak, We shall live well — we shall live very well.”
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like big butts, and I cannot lie.”
Sir Mix-a-Lot (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a sense, Americans expected a degree of fabrication from their leaders. After Jimmy Carter, in his 1976 campaign, promised, 'I’ll never lie to you,' and then pretty much kept his word, voters sent him back to Georgia. Ronald Reagan’s gauzy fictions were far more popular.”
George Packer (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Trump’s barrage of falsehoods—as many as 50 daily in the last fevered months of the 2020 campaign—complemented his unconcealed brutality. Lying was another variety of shamelessness. Just as he said aloud what he was supposed to keep to himself, he lied again and again about matters of settled fact—the more brazen and frequent the lie, the better.”
George Packer (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beginning of the end of Trump’s presidency arrived on March 11, 2020, when he addressed the nation for the first time on the subject of the pandemic and showed himself to be completely out of his depth. The virus was a fact that Trump couldn’t lie into oblivion or forge into a political weapon—it was too personal and frightening, too real.”
George Packer (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is I who drink lonely Drinks at twelve, midnight, in hotels of strange towns, It is I who laugh, it is I who make love And then, feel shame, it is I who lie dying With a rattle in my throat. I am sinner, I am saint. I am the beloved and the Betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I.”
Kamala Surayya (1934–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…At the time of his return he restored the fort of Dholpur also to Binayik Deo, and having spent the rainy season in Agra after the rising of the Canopus in the year AH 910 (AD 1504), marched to reduce the fortress of Mandrayal, which lie took without fighting from the Rajah of Mandrayal, who sued for peace; he also destroyed all the idol-temples and churches of the place…”
`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni (1540–1615) first seen 1489 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sultan Sikandar Lodi (AD 1489-1517) Mandrail (Madhya Pradesh)
“I never said #MeToo is a lie. Ever. I was talking about Hollywood and Time’s Up, not #MeToo. Ugh. I’m so tired of erroneous sh*tstorms. #MeToo is about survivors and their experiences, that cannot be taken away.”
Rose McGowan (born 1973) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: twitter 1049058197288509445 7 October 2018
“Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.”
Zhu Rongji (1928–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was very kind. he disliked too much praise and commendation, lie and specially backbite, he restrained every one from backbiting.”
Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani (1902–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most taboos have to do with eating, sex, elimination or gods; so remember, look before you sit down, lie down, squat down or kneel down!”
Keith Laumer (1925–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You should look at your reflection If you wanna see a lie You're heading in the right direction If you wanna pick a side Give me more perfection if you wanna see me cry Oh if you wanna love somebody I'm your guy”
“Sweden is unfortunately not unique in completely ignoring the climate crisis, not treating it as an emergency at all. But actively trying to greenwash, deceive and lie in order to make it seem like they are doing enough… So we are not a climate leader at all.”
Greta Thunberg (born 2003) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Greta Thunberg joins climate protest blocking Swedish parliament The guardian news ( 11 Mar 2024)
“Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we all have created. But that is just another convenient lie. Because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame. Some people – some companies and some decision-makers in particular – have known exactly what priceless values they are sacrificing to continue making unimaginable amounts of money.”
Greta Thunberg (born 2003) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Teen activist tells Davos elite they're to blame for climate crisis, CNN (25 January 2019)
“Kiss a little baby Give the world a smile If you take an inchGive 'em back a mileCause if you lie like a rugAnd you don't give a damnYou're never gonna beAs happy as a clamSo I'm sitting in a hotelTrying to write a songMy head is just as empty As the day is long.”
John Prine (1946–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Smollett was convicted of a DUI and lie to police in 2007 according to court documents.”
Jussie Smollett (born 1982) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 19 February 2019 by Matt Finn of Fox News
“Throughout this whole trial you've heard a lot about hate and hatred, and how much hatred I’m filled with and how vast my hate was. Well I don't like what black people do. If I was really filled with how much hate I allegedly am, wouldn’t I just say yes? Why would I lie about that? It wouldn’t make any sense.”
Dylann Roof (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the Green Party has four pillars on which all of its policy recommendations lie. And that is, they are social justice, ecological wisdom, peace and grassroots democracy. So that means that our foreign policy, our domestic policy, our public policy, in general, would focus on the well-being of the people, on the well-being of this planet.”
Cynthia McKinney (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“#trump doesn't have a racist bone in his body. Don't buy into the lie!”
Michael Cohen (lawyer) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2 December 2015 Tweet
“I know the Jesuits are very cunning at these tricks; but if you have no more hold of your printers, than that the press must lie thus open to their corruption.”
William Laud (1573–1645) first seen 1637 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to William Chillingworth (15 September 1637), quoted in The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume V—History of His Chancellorship, &c (1853), p. 184
“There are big questions surrounding exactly where Dr. Shafi’s loyalties lie, vis a vis Democrat and Republican policies.”
Dorrie O’Brien wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The seeker for wisdom must... be prepared to delve deeply, to discover, and to interpret according to the classical keys, the numberless treasures of spiritual and occult wisdom and law which lie beneath the surface of all allegorical writings, littered with debris though that surface may appear to be.”
Geoffrey Hodson (1886–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The truly golden age of the people does not lie in the past, but in the future.”
D. N. Jha (1940–2021) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted from Arun Shourie (2014) Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud. HarperCollin
“Boris Johnson has finally got his hands on the keys to Number 10, but he has shown time and time again that he isn't fit to be the prime minister of our country. Whether it is throwing people under the bus or writing a lie on the side of one: Britain deserves better than Boris Johnson.”
Jo Swinson (born 1980) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Boris Johnson's election as Conservative leader and Prime Minister in 2019. Boris Johnson to be UK's next prime minister (23 July 2019) on the BBC website. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
“Any social democrat, no matter their intentions, will always find it easier to move to the right than to the left. ON one side lie guarantees of stability from powerful interests, on the other capital strikes and stubborn resistance.”
Bhaskar Sunkara (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the poet laureate of all confidence tricksters and treasure-seekers puts it, we were “given to strong delusion, wholly believing a lie.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When in doubt, follow the money trail. People could lie, motives could be disguised, even acts could be misunderstood. Money was as constant as human nature.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, Iran's influence is not positive. I am certainly not an advocate of Iranian policies. I am even sure that they have a red line and a veto on me. But I think the world should engage and talk with Iran and try to see and feel where the fears of Iran lie. The Iranians are logical people. We should try to convince them that proliferation does not serve their purpose in the end.”
Ayad Allawi (born 1944) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: SPIEGEL Interview, 29 August 29 2010 (part 1), part 2