Falsehood Quotes

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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?

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.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

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.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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.

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.

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.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

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.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

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.