Falsehoods Quotes

Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

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

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction;

we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood.

It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment between them.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology.

But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said.

If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide;

In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

All...religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history.

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth.

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human.

It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference.

As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.