History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert

Under each formula lies a corpse.
Emile M. Cioran

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
Robert Collier

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Robert Collier

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
Albert Pike

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
Ernest Holmes

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

Honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin