Top 1200 Truth And Falsehood Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and they think that it's in their inner feelings that the truth lies. But I don't think that's the truth.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth

Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.

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

A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.

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

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.

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

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

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

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

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

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.

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

We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel... Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

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

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

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

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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.

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

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

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

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 governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.