Falsehood Quotes

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

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

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

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

As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

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

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

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

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

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

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

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

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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

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

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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

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

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

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

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

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

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

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.