Quotes About Falsehood

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

Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.

It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

Reagan had argued that Americans could escape poor living conditions if they so chose. All they needed to do was to "vote with their feet." They could just move along. Those who remained, he seemed to suggest, did so because they wanted to or were too lazy to aspire to something more. This was the lie.

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

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

A fool's paradise.

Ye are of your father the devil… there is no truth in him…. he is a liar, and the father of it.

Saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

That's the thing about funerals. They're completely hypocritical. Everyone says how wonderful the deceased was, how kind, how generous when, deep down, they know it's not true.

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

When you're in a situation where somebody puts something on you that you don't even know how to defend because it's not true... how do you defend that? It's just like, 'You know what? I'm going to take what you said about me, flip it, and make it lucrative.'

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

La verité dans sa matière brute est plus fausse que la faux.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced. – The Open-Ended Proof from the Panoplia Prophetica Leto's

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

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced. —THE OPEN-ENDED PROOF FROM THE PANOPLIA PROPHETICA