Quotes About Falsehoods

Rhetoric is simply the use of language to persuade, and it can be used to persuade us of falsehoods as well as truths.

Todd did a double take: "Wait a minute—Alternative facts? … Four of the five facts he uttered were just not true. Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

Heresy comes so often not by spreading falsehoods but by the assertion of a single truth, and running that truth in isolation from any balancing

Yes. You read that right. Evil Librarians control the world. They keep everyone in ignorance, teaching them falsehoods in place of history, geography, and politics. It's kind of a joke to them. Why else do you think the Librarians named themselves what they did? Librarians. LIE-brarians. Sounds obvious now, doesn't it? If you wish to smack yourself in the forehead and curse loudly, you may proceed to do so. I can wait.

half truths equal whole lies

The abiding characteristic of this administration is that it lies.

The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish caricature of a human being are gone. This picture is false, and like many other falsehoods, it has been killed by Science.

In a political campaign, you take your position; you stay strong with it. And the Clinton campaign put out tons of stuff that was not true about Donald Trump and who President Trump is.

Falsehoods cease being false when enough people believe them, Bakal. Instead, they blaze like eternal truths, and woe to the fool who tries pissing a stream on that.

Falsehoods cease being false when enough people believe them, Bakal. Instead, they blaze like eternal truths, and woe to the fool who tries pissing a stream on that. They'll tear you to pieces.

I trusted you to carry out work for me, and you have abused that by feeding the widows falsehoods. You are a devil!

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

All the time when I speak to you, even now, I'm saying not precisely what I think, but what will impress you and make you respond. That's so even between us - and how much more it's so where there are stronger motives for deception. In fact, one's so used to this one hardly sees it. The whole language is a machine for making falsehoods.

She tells so many different stories and they are all false.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

False tales are, first of all, tales, and tales, like myths, are always persuasive.

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.

the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.

Grant us the truth in creed, in trade and state, The truth in systems, methods, laws, innate, Falsehoods, illusions, myths may sound more sweet, Fallacious, false, framed but to dupe and cheat. The weak may hug a lie and call it good, Yet truth is right, when fully understood.