Falsehood Quotes

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

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?

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

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

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

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.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

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

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.

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.

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.