Falsehood Quotes

380 Falsehood quotes by 263 unique authors

If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,… — Thomas Jefferson
. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind… — Bodhidharma
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. — Nicolas Chamfort
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent,… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit… — Samuel Johnson
None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. — Samuel Johnson
The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood. — Arthur Koestler
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should… — Blaise Pascal
When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks… — Charles Churchill
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. — Thomas Hobbes
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of… — David Hume
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. — Sathya Sai Baba
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment… — Philip Sidney
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the… — George Farquhar
Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise… — Charles Godfrey Leland
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion. — Guru Nanak
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so… — Thomas Aquinas
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated… — Will Rogers
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere
not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest. — John Dryden

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