Falsehood Quote by Samuel Johnson

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

— Desiderius Erasmus

...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”

— Daniel Kahneman

If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent…

— Simon Greenleaf

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for…

— Edward Coke

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”

— Daniel Kahneman

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

— Baruch Spinoza

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

— Anonymous

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

— Winston Churchill

He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.

— Walter Scott