A Quote by John Arbuthnot

He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.

John Arbuthnot

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Against Believing Heads Lies Own Parties

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John Arbuthnot
Scottish - Physicist
April 29, 1667 - 1735

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Gunter Grass

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

John Arbuthnot

Deliverance from believing lies must come from believing truth.

Jessie Penn-Lewis

The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.

Horatius Bonar

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

Max Muller

No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!

Rudyard Kipling

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world." (p. 65)

Howard Zinn

There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you.

Tim Kaine

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

Carol Plum-Ucci

Many European parties, including the conventional parties in France, no longer have the ability to keep people together. And in terms of the coalition government, I am convinced that Angela Merkel has the necessary will and ambition. I want to be very cautious with my statements about her coalition negotiations, but support for Europe is part of the DNA of both the Greens and the Free Democratic Party. I was very pleased that the heads of both parties spoke out positively about the European project.