Top 470 Falsehood Quotes & Sayings

Falsehood always punishes itself.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so too does a man incur the guilt of falsehood who, on the part of the Church, gives worship to God contrary to the manner established by the Church or divine authority, and according to ecclesiastical custom.

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

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

Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

There has never been nationhood without falsehood.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.

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There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

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

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

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

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

Falsehood is for a season.

It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of any supposed theory or observation. It should carefully weigh the chances of truth and error and grade each in its proper position along the line joining absolute truth and absolute error.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.