Quotes About Falsehood

Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.

Lies aren't true, so why would anyone tell them?

A liar only uses the truth when they want their lies to sound truthful.

Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.

When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.

My pants are on fire!

Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear

Lying is the new truth.

The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well

It was not that she felt any allegiance to the truth. God knows she had cheated on too many men for the truth to be more than a stumbling block. But sometimes falsehood took more strength than she could summon up.

Marcos Axiom — everything said is the opposite of the facts

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

Of course, disinformation, Quinn said. I can do that. I'll leave out critical events, then I'll put in false information and twist everything that has happened around into a vague, shadowy history that obscures what really took place.

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.

Meanwhile, the question is not whether we should 'lose ourselves' - since all do so in one way or another - but where we lose ourselves: in light or in darkness, in good dreams or in nightmares, in truth or in falsehood.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

A falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.

To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!

This is what seems to me the grave, perhaps the gravest, evil of our time. For history is always somewhat false, and by its falsehood always somewhat warps judgment; but history written on the basis of deliberate falsehood and of repeated and prolonged suppression would be another matter altogether. It would not be history at all. Now history is the memory of the race; and a man without memory is no longer a man.

kind of impartial reporting in the media that gives falsehood equal billing. The balanced view. This is the era of distortion, when everything can be instantly refuted. A numbness has entered the vocabulary. All information has become unstable, as though everything contains an equal opposite. If something is said to be safe, then it must also be implied unsafe. The lie appeals to your fears. The truth is too much trouble.

Mundus Vult Decipi

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.