Falsehoods Quotes

67 quotes by 60 authors

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods… — David Arquette
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men… — Alexander Hamilton
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth.… — Anthony de Mello
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other — Michel de Montaigne
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
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. — Robert A. Heinlein
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
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history. — Samuel Johnson
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the… — Ezra Taft Benson
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly… — William Hazlitt
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and… — Samuel Johnson
Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations… — David Rice
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger
The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods. — Solomon Asch
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. — Samuel Johnson
It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so… — Yi Mun-yol
In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of… — Marc Thiessen
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. — Travis Walton

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