The simplest falsehoods are the strongest.

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

— Fanny Burney

THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On…

— Morihei Ueshiba

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

— Ovid

“Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.”

— Raheel Farooq

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most…

— Tacitus

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to…

— Plato

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you…

— Anonymous

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

— Abraham Lincoln

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political…

— Adolphe Quetelet

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

— Richard Whately

“God is not as a man.” He thus shows that all men are indeed guilty of falsehood, inasmuch as they change from one thing…

— The Church Fathers

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Anonymous

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil…

— Leo Tolstoy