Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence.” — Henri-Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“A falsehood can run around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on.” — Bill Bennett Copy Share Image
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?” — John Milton Copy Share Image
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Pride is false sense of confidence that makes one feel as better than someone else because of what they have done and… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
What's Done Can't Be Undone: In Life There Are Some Things Once Done Or Decisions Once Made Cannot Be changed; Malicious Words… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Personal identification with a name and form is false, it hides the Truth. In reality, there is no separate individuality. What we… — Akshay Kulkarni Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“... He was a bad courtier and painted an ambiguous picture entitled La Menzogna or Falsehood, to show what he felt about… — Jonathan Scott Copy Share Image
“Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity;… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it! — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
