Quotes About Falsehood

A half-truth is a whole lie.

Es mentira que nunca te he mentido, es mentira que no te mienta más; es mentira que un bulo repetido merezca ser verdad.

Trust. It was a word that only liars used. A word the truthful had no need of.

Time has reversed many of the old verdicts of history which once we thought fixed, our whole theory of natural science has been changed--all that seems to us now of little use. But the lessons of justice or of injustice which we saw every day, the image of the beautiful sternness of truth or the cringing and wavering falsehood which filled the atmosphere of the old school rooms--those we remember still.

in an information sphere without authorities—political, cultural, moral—and no trusted sources, there is no easy way to distinguish between conspiracy theories and true stories. False, partisan, and often deliberately misleading narratives now spread in digital wildfires, cascades of falsehood that move too fast for fact checkers to keep up.

People have always had different opinions. Now they have different facts. At the same time, in an information sphere without authorities—political, cultural, moral—and no trusted sources, there is no easy way to distinguish between conspiracy theories and true stories. False, partisan, and often deliberately misleading narratives now spread in digital wildfires, cascades of falsehood that move too fast for fact checkers to keep up.

Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

And when the lie begins to give us pleasure, let us speak the truth in order to lie to the lie.

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.

This ridiculous object has been strutting around saying I this and I that and all the while it has no more I than a scarecrow and no more will than a puppet.

He argued, in the spirit of Mill, that 'whatever the immediate consequences of a new truth may be, there is a high probability that truth will in the long run lead to better results than falsehood'. This was very much in line with his attack on Moore's argument for following generally accepted rules rather than using individual judgement. However, he conceded that the 'modern prejudice in favour of truth [may be] founded on somewhat insufficient bases'.

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

The shortest distance between a man and his goal was often a lie

Non vi è ferita più profonda o dolorosa di quella inferta da coloro che sostengono di amarti di più.

It's so obviously bogus, no one will look for a second layer of, er, bogusity.

She did not answer, for truth she could not, and falsehood she would not, give him.

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

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

Happiness was just a trick in your case.

The tendency to lie is one thing; lying is another.