Untruth Quotes
77 Untruth quotes by 59 unique authors
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Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
— Norman Tebbit
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Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected…
— Plato
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If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the…
— Adrian Rogers
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The more we read God’s truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we’ll spend contemplating untruths.
— Lysa TerKeurst
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All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of…
— Jack Kornfield
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I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid…
— Kenneth Lee Pike
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy
— George Orwell
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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
— J I Packer
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Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but…
— E. V. Lucas
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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses…
— Lysa TerKeurst
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Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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...Say somebody shot somebody....We...are so concerned about whether this evidence was admitted properly...(and) not recognize the intrusion into our sacred individuality that is being caused…
— John Flaherty
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Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In…
— J. Paul Getty
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
— Ira Glass
Who Wrote These Untruth Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 77 Untruth Quotes, led by these top contributors: