Top 470 Falsehood Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.

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

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that I'm some sort of charlatan who's been perpetuating this falsehood.

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

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

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

Labour can and must offer hope: not the falsehood that it will do everything, but the real promise that it can help us help each other.

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

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

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.

Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

Wikipedia works because those who know the truth are usually more numerous and committed than those who believe in a falsehood.

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

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

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

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood

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

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

The vast bulk of Murdoch's news output, including the huge majority of any falsehood and distortion, is simply the spontaneous product of his highly commercialised newsrooms. It sells.

Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.

Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.