"Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words."

Lie, Lies, Obvious, Words

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"Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Lie, Destiny, Fathers, Fatigue

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Nothing, Secrecy

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Man, Memory

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Opinion

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

Lie, Sin, Tools

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Lie, Memory

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Lie, Scandal

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act."

Thomas Jane, American Actor

Lie, Act, Career, Now

"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."

Hal Holbrook, American Actor

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Explore more quotes by Alfred Korzybski

"Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness."

Usefulness,

"God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't."

God, May

"Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words."

Lie, Lies, Obvious, Words

"There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."

Life, Doubt, Thinking

"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

Mankind,

"If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone."

Word, Words, World