Untruth Quotes · Page 5

[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation,…

— Mati Unt

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think,…

— Graydon Carter

“Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

— Thomas Carlyle

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

— Bertrand Russell

Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that…

— Swami Vivekananda

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

— John Locke

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

— Gautama Buddha

“People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a…

— Molly Friedenfeld

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

— J. I. Packer

What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence…

— William Hazlitt

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

— Walter Gropius

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some…

— Christopher Vogler

I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

— Norman Tebbit

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

— Ariana Franklin

Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby…

— Thomas Szasz

Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two…

— Jerome K. Jerome

...Say somebody shot somebody....We...are so concerned about whether this evidence was admitted properly...(and) not recognize the intrusion into our sacred individuality that…

— John Flaherty