Falsehood Quotes

380 Falsehood quotes by 263 unique authors

Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is… — C.S. Lewis
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly… — Rene Descartes
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. — Niels Bohr
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted… — Leo Tolstoy
A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read… — George R. R. Martin
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last… — Anton Chekhov
Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big… — E E Cummings
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have… — Michel de Montaigne
Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct,… — Jane Austen
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth… — John Stuart Mill
A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read… — George R. R. Martin
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have… — Daniel Kahneman
It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could… — Thomas Szasz
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in… — C.S. Lewis
Truth is brighter than Light Falsehood darker than night Revenge is keener than Axe and Love is softer than melting wax — Cassandra Clare
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And… — Oscar Wilde
We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the… — Rick Yancey
The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should… — Pope Leo XIII
There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. — Paul Bourget
When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters… — Malcolm Forbes
The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew… — Bertrand Russell
No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith. — Thomas Paine
Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice… — Karl Barth
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they… — John Dryden

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