Falsehood Quotes

380 Falsehood quotes by 263 unique authors

It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as… — Thomas Jefferson
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. — Walter Savage Landor
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood. — Albert Einstein
I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood, — Newt Gingrich
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. — Jonathan Swift
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. — Robert A. Heinlein
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is… — George Soros
There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood. — Chrysippus
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world;… — Khalil Gibran
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens,… — Plato
In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a false opinion for… — Ignatius of Antioch
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it… — Thomas Jefferson
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood. — Robert Kennedy
If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. — Thomas Paine
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be… — Czeslaw Milosz
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth. — Blaise Pascal
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to… — Satish Kumar
Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul… — Sri Chinmoy
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history. — Samuel Johnson
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to tell… — Plato

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