Quotes About Falsehood

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.

Your false promises are dark enough to submerge even the sun.

Sometimes, the truth makes everything else seem like.

Only falsehood wraps itself in a flood of words. Truth is brief.

Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands.

For propagandists, whatever promoted the Allied cause was true, whether factual or not. What counted was the noble end--victory--not the sordid means of achieving it. 'Truth and falsehood are arbitrary terms,' declared a CPI official. 'There is nothing in experience to tell us that one is always preferable to the other....There are lifeless truths and vital lies....The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

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

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

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Everything that gristles is not gold.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings,To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.

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