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Quotes About Falsehood

That there's a difference 'twixt false and true.
~ Moliere
Allowing his own power to rise, he felt his wings begin to glow. "You carry no babe." Silence, her shock morphing rapidly into fury. "An accusation of deliberate falsehood! You incite a war!
~ Nalini Singh
The logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so as not to add to the injustice of the human condition, to insist on plain language so as not to increase the universal falsehood, and to wager, in spite of human misery, for happiness. —Albert Camus
~ Unknown
When we hear people talk about ideas that are false, yet necessary for a humane social order, that is a signal that they have bumped up against the hard edge of a reality that does not fit their worldview. They have stumbled upon the truths of general revelation. And they are seeking to suppress those truths by demoting them to useful fictions.
~ Unknown
Nor was the monster public the only one deceived.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
All around me is cowardice and deceit.
~ Nicholas II of Russia
Good newspapers believe in giving a balanced view of the world. Fine. Some people then exploit that belief and use it to balance truth with falsehood.
~ Nick Davies
Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.
~ Unknown
Humanity is the only totally false god.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her mouth like little fragments of oblivion giving her the impression she was contradicting herself. It was in these moments, when words were both true and false, solemn and light, on the tip of her tongue and deep in the throat, that space shrank in her mouth like a hard-felt blow.
~ Unknown
We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.
~ Unknown
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
~ Niels Bohr
Everything is deception, everything is a dream, everything is not what it seems to be!
~ Nikolai Gogol
Yalans?z bir hayat. Bu cümle zaten bir yaland?.
~ Osamu Dazai
There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.
~ Unknown
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Normalcy was the byword, even when it was a lie.
~ Pete Hamill
And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.
~ 2 Chronicles 11:15
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
~ Job 15:35
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
~ Psalm 7:14
You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
~ Psalm 52:3
I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.
~ Psalm 119:163
whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
~ Psalm 144:8
Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
~ Psalm 144:11