Quotes About Falsehood

History is a vast dust-heap of falsehood with a few pennies of truth scattered through it.

A half truth is a whole lie.

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.

Nothing like truth to leaven a good lie.

Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Further, God referred to false knowledge in His words to Job in chapters 38ff. Specifically, in verse 2, God asks Job a rhetorical question wherein He expresses bemusement at Job's spiritual shallowness. He asks who it is that darkens, or obscures, God's counsel. Then He speaks of words that are without knowledge, referring to Job and his three friends who were all blind to the facts of Job's situation.

it was a great big lie.

Order is Truth,—each thing standing on the basis that belongs to it: Order and Falsehood cannot subsist together.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

Después de todo, ¿qué es una mentira? No es sino la verdad enmascarada», escribió Byron.

stretched truth into an obvious

A salacious lie will always trump a noble truth.

She didn't believe that. Didn't agree with it. But intrusive thoughts were trespassers. You didn't invite them in. But they broke in, anyway, whether they were true or false.

Liar, liar, pants on fire…

Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the writers of false books, faked books, books that fill the air with decay and disease?

You can shovel your bullshit however deep you want it, but in the end, it's still bullshit.

For all her talk of being or so progressive and free...all she really is is full of shit!

There is no exception to the fact that men have everywhere come to the conclusion that the earth was flat, and yet a wider and truer knowledge proved that universal belief to be quite false. The fact of a certain belief being universal only warrants the assumption that the belief itself has a cause, but it tells us nothing whatever concerning its truthfulness.