Falsehood Quotes

380 Falsehood quotes by 263 unique authors

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! — William Shakespeare
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. — George Bernard Shaw
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. — Robert Southey
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. — Tacitus
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. — Leonardo da Vinci
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. — Daniel Webster
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Falsehood is never in words; it is in things. — Italo Calvino
There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want… — Albert Camus
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and… — Leo Tolstoy
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. — C.S. Lewis
In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood. — Guy Debord
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate… — Mortimer Adler
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and… — Emma Goldman
A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge… — Tom Stoppard
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions… — Herbert Marcuse
Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have… — William Shakespeare
All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the… — Henri Barbusse
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without… — Dag Hammarskjold
But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop.… — Erica Jong
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. — William Shakespeare
Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the… — Albert Camus
When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this… — David Hume
No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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