Quotes About Falsehood

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it.

To say that in every falsehood there is a grain of truth is to treat the two like oil and water, which cannot be mixed and are only externally combined.

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.

For how could I justly be blamed and prohibited from loving false things, if it were false that I loved them?

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

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.

Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

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

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

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

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.