Quotes About Falsehood

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

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

Lies are unattended truths

Falsehood' is the destruction of, and hostility to, reality as it is in God; anyone who tells the truth cynically is lying.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Every idol makes two simple and extravagant promises. "You shall not surely die." "You shall be like God.

How can we assert and test hypotheses if there are no such things as assertions that can be evaluated as true or false? How can we design experiments if there is not such thing as design? How can we explain anything if we do not assert anything and if others cannot understand it?

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.

When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie.

Anything that consoles is fake.

I can fake anything.

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.