Assertion Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“When a honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he…

— Harry Frankfurt

Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he…

— Blaise Pascal

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

— Baruch Spinoza

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

— Arnold Bennett

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.…

— Edmund Burke

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

— Aristotle

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it…

— John Tillotson

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

— Baruch Spinoza

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

— Daniel Webster