Quotes About Falsehood

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

False notions of love teach us that it is the place where we will feel no pain, where we will be in a state of constant bliss. We have to expose the falseness of these beliefs to see and accept the reality that suffering and pain do not end when we begin to love. In some cases when we are making the slow journey back from lovelessness to love, our suffering may become more intense. Acceptance of pain is part of loving practice.

False notions of love teach us that it is the place where we will feel no pain, where we will be in a state of constant bliss. We have to expose the falseness of these beliefs to see and accept the reality that suffering and pain do not end when we begin to love.

Truth is ever feeble against passionate falsehood.

Putting a cat into a stable doesn't make it a horse

and the rumor was believed because truth is ever feeble against passionate falsehood.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

Almost all philosophers, in their ethical systems, first lay down a false doctrine, and then argue that wickedness consists in acting in a manner that proves it false, which would be impossible if the doctrine were true.

I think there is a mixture of truth and falsehood in the admiration of nature which it is important to disentagle.  To bein with, what is natural? Roughly speaking, anything to which the speaker was accustomed in childhood.

religions of the Roman Empire "were all considered by the people, as equally true, by the philosopher, as equally false, and by the magistrate, as equally useful."8

Rumors are easy to plant; they grow like no other crop.

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

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Natürlich ist in diesem Buch alles erstunken und erlogen.

None of us is fully able to perceive the truth that shines through another person's window, nor the falsehood that we may perceive as truth. Thus, we can easily mistake another's good for evil, and our own evil for good.

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns it's back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today. False teachers use high-sounding words that seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty . . .adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Remember what it says in Matthew: And false prophets shall abound, and they shall deceive many'" "And from the multiplication of lawlessness, love shall grow cold in many," said Pelagia, continuing the apostolic citation. Dolinin started and gave the nun a strange look, as if he had just heard those words for the first time, or perhaps had never really thought about their meaning before.

They used an old internal Microsoft term to describe it: "cookie licking," or the act of claiming to do something before you actually do it, in order to capture notoriety and prevent others from following.

Old Mr. Bob Ewell accused him of rapin' his girl an' had him arrested an' put in jail—