Falsehood Quotes

380 Falsehood quotes by 263 unique authors

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of… — William Hazlitt
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood. — Jean de La Fontaine
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune. — Jean Giraudoux
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. — Jean Giraudoux
Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. — Charles Caleb Colton
A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth. — Saadi
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana
Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is. — John Donne
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. — Alexander Pope
Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? — John Milton
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no… — Walter Savage Landor
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not… — Simone Weil
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood. — Karl Barth
Human beings fear light and knowledge and power. There is a weird quirky sort of thing that happens with people. When you log on to… — Frederick Lenz
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. — Leslie Stephen
The priest is the personification of falsehood. — Giuseppe Garibaldi
Falsehood always punishes itself. — Frank Auerbach
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood. — Anthony Collins
It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving. — Gilles Duceppe
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies… — Herbert Marcuse

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