--- title: "Famous Falsehood Qoutes" description: "Browse 724 Falsehood quotes by 452 authors. Discover the best Falsehood sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b57/jacques-ellul-4407_confidence_the-person-who-imagined-that-he-could-no_3068894.jpg" --- > [The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/the-person-who-imagined-that-he-could-not-be-the-victim-of-propaganda/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b57/jacques-ellul-4407_confidence_the-person-who-imagined-that-he-could-no_3068894.jpg) > [Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/truth-when-we-are-fortunate-enough-to-find-it-is-like-bad-tasting/) [Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93e/orson-scott-card-134_belief_truth-when-we-are-fortunate-enough-to-fi_1126610.jpg) > [This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/this-functional-e-w-language-controls-by-reducing-the-linguistic/) [Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8d/herbert-marcuse-3589_abstraction_this-functional-e-w-language-controls-by_1507784.jpg) > [“Look beneath the surface. Things are usually very different from how they initially appeared, and ignorance, which didn't look beneath the surface,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/look-beneath-the-surface-things-are-usually-very-different-from-how/) [Baltasar Gracián](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cca/baltasar-gracian-1090_appearance_look-beneath-the-surface-things-are-usua_1968687.jpg) ## Top authors on Falsehood - [Samuel Johnson 17 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-hume-27582.jpg) David Hume 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/david-hume/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-blaise-pascal-18353.jpg) Blaise Pascal 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/blaise-pascal/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-paine-90547.jpg) Thomas Paine 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/thomas-paine/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-carlyle-90262.jpg) Thomas Carlyle 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/thomas-carlyle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-milton-51960.jpg) John Milton 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/john-milton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-leonardo-da-vinci-59740.jpg) Leonardo da Vinci 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/leonardo-da-vinci/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jonathan-swift-52993.jpg) Jonathan Swift 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/jonathan-swift/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-hazlitt-95511.jpg) William Hazlitt 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/william-hazlitt/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-green-ingersoll-79794.jpg) Robert Green Ingersoll 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/robert-green-ingersoll/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehood/#itemlist", "name": "Falsehood Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jacques Ellul" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/the-person-who-imagined-that-he-could-not-be-the-victim-of-propaganda/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b57/jacques-ellul-4407_confidence_the-person-who-imagined-that-he-could-no_3068894.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b57/jacques-ellul-4407_confidence_the-person-who-imagined-that-he-could-no_3068894.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b57/jacques-ellul-4407_confidence_the-person-who-imagined-that-he-could-no_3068894.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth…” — Jacques Ellul", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. 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