Quotes About Falsehood

Every lie needs, and gives birth to, another lie

Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

What was being put over (by Musso[lini] & Co.) was, she was never in doubt, based on trickery and false values, sanctified aggression, pandered to false pride; it made ignorant youth feel important, gave foolish people spurious hopes – it was dangerous stuff.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Zoroaster preached that the universe was divided between darkness and light, between good and evil, between truth and falsehood, between life and death. The universe split into these opposing camps at the moment of creation, they had been locked in struggle ever since, and the contest would endure to the end of time.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

Bulshytt: (1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a derogatory term for false speech in general, esp. knowing and deliberate falsehood or obfuscation. (2) In Orth, a more technical and clinical term denoting speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said.

Where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruin.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

That was the pattern of this new society, as Lanny came to know it; boundless cruelty combined with bland and pious lying. The Fascisti would develop falsehood into a new science and a new art; they would teach it to one dictator after another, until half the human race would no longer have any means of telling truth from falsehood.

The Fascisti would develop falsehood into a new science and a new art; they would teach it to one dictator after another, until half the human race would no longer have any means of telling truth from falsehood.

solemnly ordain: "There shall be no reprisals." That was the pattern of this new society, as Lanny came to know it; boundless cruelty combined with bland and pious lying. The Fascisti would develop falsehood into a new science and a new art; they would teach it to one dictator after another, until half the human race would no longer have any means of telling truth from falsehood.

No matter whether it was true or not—for Adi meant literally his maxim that the bigger the falsehood, the easier to get it believed; people would say you wouldn't dare make up a thing like that.

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

evil condoned wears the mask of benevolence

Just a boy with black hair and a sharp face who tells lies. He's nothing.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.

Oh, what is brighter than the light? What is darker than the night? What is keener than an axe? What is softer than melting wax? Truth is brighter than the light, Falsehood darker than the night. Revenge is keener than an axe, And love is softer than melting wax.

It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself" (p. 5)

Mañana me esperaban otros caminos. Fáciles, ruidosos, comunes. La fe a medias, las falsas banderas. Me resignaría a ello, ¿qué otra cosa podía hacer? Puesto que la seducción de la nada era inútil, repugnándole al corazón por tantos indicios dejarse persuadir por ella. Y ni la infelicidad, con su amarga miel, me servía ya.

Don't fear the truth, it isn't hard. Don't embrace falsehood, it is hard.

The hardness of truth is nothing compared to hardness as a result of falsehood.

[F]lattery is the prolific parent of falsehood.