Untruth Quotes

77 Untruth quotes by 59 unique authors

What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle… — Anton Chekhov
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. -… — Mahatma Gandhi
The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong… — Charles Baxter
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth… — William Shakespeare
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies… — Jeanette Winterson
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you… — George Orwell
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. — Kurt Vonnegut
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude… — Philip Larkin
I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One… — Gene Stratton-Porter
Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very… — Kurt Vonnegut
It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions.… — Deb Caletti
The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and… — Pope Benedict XVI
In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two… — Jerome K. Jerome
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth. — Elizabeth Gaskell
A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity. — Jasper Fforde
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence — Mahatma Gandhi
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of… — Samuel Daniel
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the… — Mark Twain
While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that… — Mahatma Gandhi
Spirit is the only truth within us, the rest is all untruth. — Nirmala Srivastava
Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth. — Timothy Noah
A new untruth is better than an old truth. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
And I return to the coldness of this defying human nature, to the impertinence with which the losers of the Sacred Self clime to our… — Sorin Cerin
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. Its seeing through… — Unkown

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