Falsehood Quotes

380 quotes by 266 authors

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods… — David Arquette
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. — Abu Bakr
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. — Abu Bakr
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr
Falsehood is a perennial spring. — Edmund Burke
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. — Albert Camus
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. — Miguel de Cervantes
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. — Miguel de Cervantes
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. — Miguel de Cervantes
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men… — Alexander Hamilton
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be… — Louis D. Brandeis
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may… — Henry David Thoreau
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we… — Hannah Arendt
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to… — Thomas Jefferson
No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart. — James Russell Lowell
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. — David Hume
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. — Joseph Conrad

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