Falsehood Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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?

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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

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

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

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.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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

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 cowardice, the truth courage.

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

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.

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

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

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.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

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

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.