Quotes About Falsehood

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Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful.

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: I will it!

if falsehood is your nature, then only by falsehood can you be true.

Not one word of the following is true

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

thoes prepared to shed copious floods of crocodile tears . . .

I thought you were good, but you are not good. You are just a lying old dirty birdie.

Liars see their own kind everywhere.

I Lie and that's the Truth

A single lie is the father of all lies

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

My pants are on fire!

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

This paradox suggests that Judaism has a different understanding of language than the one that prevails in the West and had its origins in ancient Greece. The philosophers, heirs to the Greeks, tended to think of language as conveying information. What matters is whether it is true or false.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

Some words are wind. Some words are treason.

The opposite of a truth," Klaus quoted, "is a falsehood; but the opposite of a profound truth...may be another profound truth." It either is or is not August...if I assert it's August when it isn't--simply false; but if I say that life is pain, that is true, profoundly so; so, too, that life is joy; the more profound the statement, the more reversible the deep truths are sedimented in syntax, the terms can be reversed... [Niels Bohr]

Whatever his reasons, and despite his reputation as an intelligence guru, by 1943 von Roenne was deliberately passing information he knew to be false, directly to Hitler's desk.

To be critical meant to elevate thinking so far beyond all restrictive conditions that the knowledge of truth sprang forth magically, as it were, from insight into the falsehood of these restrictions.

The false black preacher is only too happy to reinforce the idea of the white man as scapegoat. His sermons make the congregation angrier and more bitter. And the angrier they become, the easier it is for the minister to control them.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.