Falsehood Quotes

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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

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

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

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

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.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.