The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas A. Edison

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Marcus Aurelius

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

On all the peaks lies peace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Alexis de Tocqueville

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus