Quotes About Falsehood

I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Fake people tend to tell sweet lies

Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thes 2:3-12)

Wittgenstein calls tautologies and contradictions 'pseudo-propositions'; they are not real propositions, because real propositions can be either true or false.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Her voice was a throaty screech, without melody, as false as her eyebrows and as sharp as her nails. (The King in Yellow)

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.

In Teddy's experience people who claimed to be one thing were generally the opposite

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good and falsehood with truth and hatred with love.