Falsehood Quotes

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.

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.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

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.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

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.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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.

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.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

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

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

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.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

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

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

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

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

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

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