Top 1200 Truth And Falsehood Quotes & Sayings

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

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

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

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

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.

No one who lies is linked to God. God is the truth. He says, 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life' (Jn. 14:6). See how we sort ourselves out and what position we take up through lying ? clearly on the side of the evil one. If, therefore, we want to be saved, we must with all our hearts love the Truth and guard ourselves from every kind of falsehood so that we may not be separated from truth and from life.

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

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

Duration is not a test of truth or 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.

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

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

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

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

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

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.

I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

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.

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.

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

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

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.

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

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a 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.

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