Falsehood Quotes

380 Falsehood quotes by 263 unique authors

Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the… — Ezra Taft Benson
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life… — William T. Vollmann
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood. — Ludwig Feuerbach
It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment. — Eusebius
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. — C.S. Lewis
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that… — Thomas Carlyle
Human truth is always soiled with falsehood. — Austin O'Malley
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing… — John Milton
There is truth and falsehood in a comma. — Tom Stoppard
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as laws are natural,… — Mikhail Bakunin
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it… — John Calvin
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood, — Harper Lee
Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood. — Amelia Bloomer
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. — Hosea Ballou
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. — Hosea Ballou
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what… — Frederic Bastiat
Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope… — John Stuart Mill
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. — Tryon Edwards
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation — Willard Van Orman Quine
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. — Walter Savage Landor
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly… — William Hazlitt
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.... — Hosea Ballou
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and… — Samuel Johnson

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