Untruth Quotes

77 Untruth quotes by 59 unique authors

If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or… — Ibn Khaldun
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of… — Carl Jung
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together — Mahatma Gandhi
Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth. — Lemn Sissay
It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood.… — Galileo Galilei
Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based… — Ricky Gervais
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice… — Aldous Huxley
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 doesnâ€™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

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