Falsehood Quotes

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

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

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

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.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

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

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

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 truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.