Quotes About Falsehood

As we have seen, Pharaoh's magicians were able to deceive everyone, apart from Musa (as) and those who believed in him. However, his evidence broke the spell, or "swallowed up what they had forged," as the verse puts it: We revealed to Musa: "Throw down your staff." And it immediately swallowed up what they had forged. So the Truth took place and what they did was shown to be false. (Surat al-A'raf, 117-8)

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

No hay nada más engañoso que la apariencia de la humildad. A menudo sólo es carencia de opinión, y a veces una ostentación indirecta.

I get really upset when I'm around liars.

Marat Mindiyarov, an unemployed teacher who lasted four months at the IRA, said the job required him "to write that white is black and black is white. Your first feeling, when you ended up there, was that you were in some kind of factory that turned lying, telling untruths, into an industrial assembly line.

A good general strategy is reasoning counterfactually: if someone tells you that X is true, ask yourself—(i) what would they say if X really is true, and (ii) what would they say if X is false? If the answer to (i) and (ii) is "they will say roughly what they just said now," then their words provided you with exactly zero information.

This is in us: a certain sense of denial, a certain sense of groupthink. This is not something that sits on one party line or the other. We've seen it in all permutations throughout history, and at the core of it is a certain insistence that what we want to be true is now true, and what we don't like is now false.

People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

what elaborate lengths we go to fool ourselves)...

Lies destroy you

Hackney, he thought irritably, glaring at it. Always gotten up as something it wasn't.

It is not for me to declare a winner in this fight," he told them. "Truth and Falsehood are destined to struggle. Sometimes Truth will win, but other times Falsehood will prevail, and then Truth must rise up and fight again. Until the end of the world, Truth must battle Falsehood, and must never rest or let down his guard, or he will be finished once and for all." And so Truth and Falsehood are fighting to this day.

People liked to pretend, but when you knew the truth you could see nothing but the lie.

There was no tiger. No intruder. No signs of a break-in.

the ancient blood libel: that every year at Passover, Jews ritually slaughter Christian children and use their blood to bake matzo.

All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces; they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness; they assert the reality of illusions; and for a moment they change falsehood into truth.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.