Quotes and Sayings about Falsehood
"He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Falsehood, Paradise, Will)
"The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Truth, Honesty, Dishonesty, Falsehood)
"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable."
- Hosea Ballou
(Related: Blood, Exaggeration, Falsehood)
"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
- Hosea Ballou
(Related: Truth, Courage, Cowardice, Falsehood)
"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Truth, Fact, Falsehood, May)
"Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears."
- Charles D. Broad
(Related: Nature, Truth, Falsehood, Judgment)
"Falsehood is a perennial spring."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Falsehood, Spring)
"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, Light, Twilight)
"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, Oil, Water, Will)
"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, Oil, Water, Will)
"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, May, Oil, Water)
"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Trust, Truth, Falsehood, Man)
"The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty."
- William Cobbett
(Related: People, Press, Spirits, Trade)
"Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood."
- Anthony Collins
(Related: Truth, Evil, Falsehood, Respect)
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
- Aleister Crowley
(Related: Fear, Falsehood)
"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."
- Tryon Edwards
(Related: Truth, Accuracy, Falsehood, First)
"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."
- George Eliot
(Related: Truth, Falsehood)
"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
- Desiderius Erasmus
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, Man, Mind)
"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."
- Margaret Fuller
(Related: Wisdom, Being, Force, Purity)
"As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely."
- Jeff Gannon
(Related: Truth, Falsehood)
"The priest is the personification of falsehood."
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
(Related: Falsehood)
"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Men, Women, Burden, Falsehood)
"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: War, Falsehood)
"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Truth, Darkness, Falsehood, Light)
"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."
- Hesiod
(Related: Will)
"Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?"
- Anthony Hope
(Related: Truth, People, Falsehood)
"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."
- David Hume
(Related: Fact, Falsehood)
"Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Truth)
"Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods."
- Samuel P. Huntington
"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."
- William James
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, Today, Tomorrow)
"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Truth, Errors, Mind, Nothing)
"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Truth, Knowledge, Difference, Falsehood, Gold, Man, Will)
"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, Lying, World)
"We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be."
- Denis Kearney
(Related: Defeat, Defiance, Falsehood, Force, Fraud, Gold, Will)
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Truth, People, Ideas, Values, American, Facts, Falsehood, Nation, Open)
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Truth, People, Falsehood, Nation, Open)
"In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Politics, Truth, Argument, Falsehood)
"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Truth, Conflict, Evil, Falsehood, Nation)
"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Truth, Value)
"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: Experience, Men, Truth, Persecution)
"Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose."
- Czeslaw Milosz
(Related: Truth, Lie, Contempt, Falsehood, May, Reality)
"It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance."
- Thomas Paine
(Related: Falsehood)
"We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Contradiction, Disguise, Falsehood)
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Love, Truth, Falsehood)
"This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."
- Peace Pilgrim
(Related: Love, Truth, Evil, Falsehood, Hatred)
"'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do."
- Alexander Pope
"Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: Time, Falsehood)
"Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood."
- John Edward Redmond
(Related: Act, Falsehood, Force, Fraud, Gentlemen, Irish, Parliament, Treachery, Years)
"The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?"
- Ernestine Rose
(Related: Nature, Being, Cause, Falsehood, Man, Woman)
"Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Faith, Cruelty, Direction, Falsehood, Stupidity, Vanity)
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Truth, Being, Falsehood, Infinity)
"O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Falsehood)
"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Truth, Falsehood)
"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."
- Robert Southey
(Related: Life, Lie, Deception, Falsehood, Nothing, Practice, Words)
"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
(Related: Truth, Advertising, Difference, Public)
"The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood."
- Leslie Stephen
(Related: Truth, Falsehood)
"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things."
- Anne Sullivan
(Related: Mistake, Children, Desire, Discrimination, Nonsense, Observation)
"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
- Tacitus
(Related: Truth, Delay, Falsehood, Haste, Uncertainty)
"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Truth, Darkness, Doubt, Falsehood, Light)
"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."
- Daniel Webster
(Related: Quarrel)
"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, Logic, World)