Top 110 Untruth Quotes & Sayings

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.

Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.

There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something so completely untrue, as opposed to the little amateur fibs I was already practiced at -- horrid little apprentice sinner that I was --like the ones about you'd already said your prayers or washed under the fingernails. Yes, I was impressed. I too must learn to say these gorgeous untruths. Imaginary kings and queens would be my houseguests when I was older.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

Spirit is the only truth within us, the rest is all untruth.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.

Where there are two people, there is untruth.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

Few things detract more from your credibility and the respect of your colleagues and peers than being called on the carpet to deflect accusations and defend an untruth.