Falsehood Quotes

380 Falsehood quotes by 263 unique authors

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. — Margaret Fuller
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. — Aleister Crowley
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. — George Eliot
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. — Desiderius Erasmus
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? — Anthony Hope
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the… — David Hume
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. — William James
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. — Thomas Jefferson
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. — Samuel Johnson
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply… — Samuel Johnson
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of… — John F. Kennedy
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we… — Alveda King
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. — James Russell Lowell
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them… — Anne Sullivan Macy
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. — Maurice Maeterlinck
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces,… — John Stuart Mill
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods? — Michael Moore
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension… — Isaac Newton
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. — Thomas Paine
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. — Blaise Pascal
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. — Blaise Pascal
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. — Alexander Pope
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. — Marcel Proust
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as… — Jean Rostand
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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