Falsehood Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

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

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

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.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

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

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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.

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.

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

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

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.

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

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

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.