Falsehood Quotes

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

— Walter Savage Landor

Falsehoods border on truths.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

— George Eliot

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

— Iris Murdoch

Falsehood is for a season.

— Walter Savage Landor

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

— William Shakespeare

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation

— Willard Van Orman Quine

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

— Maria Edgeworth

There has never been nationhood without falsehood.

— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

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

— Abu Bakr

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

— Saadi

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.”

— Criss Jami

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.

— Max Anders

“Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me…

— Satish Kumar

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Anonymous

There's nothing to be guilty when the whole world stands against you to prove you are wrong, when your heart says you…

— Nushra

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

— Anthony Collins

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

— Ambrose Bierce

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for…

— John Stuart Mill

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify…

— Lysander Spooner

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths…

— Henry David Thoreau

We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to…

— Rick Yancey

Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened…

— Kij Johnson

“What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous…

— Anne Brontë

Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity…

— Matthew Scully

We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical…

— Benjamin Franklin

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful,…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it.…

— Boyd K. Packer

When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on…

— Malcolm Forbes

I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative…

— Anton Chekhov