Falsehood Quotes
380 quotes by 266 authors
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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
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
— Abu Bakr
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
— Abu Bakr
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
— Niels Bohr
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
— Edmund Burke
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
— James Russell Lowell
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
— David Hume
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
— Joseph Conrad
Who Wrote These Falsehood Quotes
266 authors contributed a total of 380 Falsehood Quotes, led by these top contributors: