Falsehood Quotes

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

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.

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

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

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

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

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

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

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

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.

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

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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