Quotes About Untruth

They say you can litter-box train them, but they lie.

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

All these thinkers, all centrally concerned with pathology both individual and cultural, came to the same conclusion: lies warp the structure of Being. Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth.

There is no truth in him.

We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.

But her chief emotion was pity: for father's embarrassment at having to tell her this, for the staggerings of a man obliged, even for a little time, to throw away the crutches of untruth.

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Natürlich ist in diesem Buch alles erstunken und erlogen.

The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

Spirit is the only truth within us, the rest is all untruth.

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

He was just making it up.

Then untruth came to the Russian land. The main trouble, the root of the future evil, was loss of faith in the value of one's own opinion. People imagined that the time when they followed the urgings of their moral sense was gone, that now they had to sing to the general tune and live by foreign notions imposed on everyone. The dominion of the ready-made phrase began to grow—first monarchistic, then revolutionary.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

I am a liar. All is not well. Not at all.