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Quotes About Falsehood

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.
~ Matthew Arnold
Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.
~ Max Anders
Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.
~ Max Anders
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?
~ Michel de Montaigne
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
~ Quintus Curtius Rufus
These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.
~ Richard Perle
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
~ Seneca the Younger
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
~ Thomas Browne
To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
~ Umberto Eco
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.
~ Will Rogers
Half a truth is often a great lie.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
~ Raheel Farooq
The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.
~ Luther Burbank
Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.
~ Anonymous
A lie is the only truth about a liar.
~ Ketan Waghmare
And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.
~ Osyp Nazaruk, Roxelana
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
~ Tacitus
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie.
~ Auliq Ice
Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.
~ Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
I reminded myself of a simple truism—everybody lies
~ Michael Connelly
I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
~ James Taylor