Falsehood Quotes
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
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
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
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
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Tryon Edwards
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James
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
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
Anthony Collins
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim
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