Quotes about Falsehood

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. Votes: 6

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. Votes: 6

Falsehood is a perennial spring. Votes: 5

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. Votes: 4

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.... Votes: 4

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! Votes: 4

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. Votes: 4

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. Votes: 4

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. Votes: 4

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. Votes: 4

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. Votes: 4

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. Votes: 4

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. Votes: 4

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Votes: 4

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. Votes: 4

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. Votes: 4

Falsehood always punishes itself. Votes: 3

Falsehood is for a season. Votes: 3

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune. Votes: 3

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. Votes: 3

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage Votes: 3

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. Votes: 3

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things. Votes: 3

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. Votes: 3

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. Votes: 3

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another Votes: 3

Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one. Votes: 3

Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood Votes: 3

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. Votes: 3

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. Votes: 3

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. Votes: 3

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. Votes: 3

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself. Votes: 3

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. Votes: 3

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Votes: 3

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. Votes: 3

Truth is brighter than Light Falsehood darker than night Revenge is keener than Axe and Love is softer than melting wax Votes: 3

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. Votes: 3

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. Votes: 3

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. Votes: 3

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth. Votes: 3

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats. Votes: 3

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood. Votes: 3

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect. Votes: 3

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. Votes: 3

Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:"“ And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool. Votes: 3

Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all. Votes: 3

Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life. Votes: 3

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will. Votes: 3

Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride. Votes: 3

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right Votes: 3

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer. Votes: 3

Oh, what is brighter than the light?What is darker than the night?What is keener than an axe?What is softer than melting wax?Truth is brighter than the light,Falsehood darker than the night.Revenge is keener than an axe,And love is softer than melting wax. Votes: 3

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. Votes: 2

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. Votes: 2

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. Votes: 2

Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood, Votes: 2

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. Votes: 2

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. Votes: 2

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? Votes: 2

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. Votes: 2

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth. Votes: 2

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Votes: 2

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul. Votes: 2

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. Votes: 2

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. Votes: 2

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. Votes: 2

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. Votes: 2

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. Votes: 2

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek. Votes: 2

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. Votes: 2

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated. Votes: 2

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. Votes: 2

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. Votes: 2

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter. Votes: 2

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. Votes: 2

Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind. Votes: 2

The priest is the personification of falsehood Votes: 1

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented Votes: 1

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. Votes: 1

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it Votes: 1

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity Votes: 1

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding Votes: 1

Affectation is the product of falsehood. Votes: 0

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation Votes: 0

There has never been nationhood without falsehood. Votes: 0

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. Votes: 0

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe. Votes: 0

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood. Votes: 0

The priest is the personification of falsehood. Votes: 0

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood. Votes: 0

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. Votes: 0

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood. Votes: 0

There is truth and falsehood in a comma. Votes: 0

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood. Votes: 0

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. Votes: 0

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. Votes: 0

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. Votes: 0

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie. Votes: 0

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. Votes: 0

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth. Votes: 0

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. Votes: 0

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity. Votes: 0

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood. Votes: 0

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart. Votes: 0

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth. Votes: 0

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. Votes: 0

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood. Votes: 0

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood. Votes: 0

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth. Votes: 0

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. Votes: 0

It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving. Votes: 0

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told. Votes: 0

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Votes: 0

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood. Votes: 0

The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen. Votes: 0

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood. Votes: 0

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. Votes: 0

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. Votes: 0

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report. Votes: 0

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood. Votes: 0

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness. Votes: 0

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. Votes: 0

Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood. Votes: 0

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. Votes: 0

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong. Votes: 0

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you. Votes: 0

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. Votes: 0

Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is. Votes: 0

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood. Votes: 0

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood. Votes: 0

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction. Votes: 0

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. Votes: 0

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. Votes: 0

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge. Votes: 0

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.' Votes: 0

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. Votes: 0

He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. Votes: 0

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. Votes: 0

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply. Votes: 0

What does God think of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood? Votes: 0

Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace. Votes: 0

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. Votes: 0

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. Votes: 0

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. Votes: 0

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. Votes: 0

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith. Votes: 0

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion. Votes: 0

Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. Votes: 0

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? Votes: 0

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. Votes: 0

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. Votes: 0

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood. Votes: 0

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it. Votes: 0

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. Votes: 0

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word. Votes: 0

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. Votes: 0

Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely. Votes: 0

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. Votes: 0

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. Votes: 0

When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence. Votes: 0

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen! Votes: 0

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. Votes: 0

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. Votes: 0

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood. Votes: 0

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine. Votes: 0

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. Votes: 0

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood. Votes: 0

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood. Votes: 0

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it. Votes: 0

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. Votes: 0

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit. Votes: 0

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. Votes: 0

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth! Votes: 0

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth! Votes: 0

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. Votes: 0

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. Votes: 0

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. Votes: 0

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. Votes: 0

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. Votes: 0

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood. Votes: 0

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. Votes: 0

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. Votes: 0

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? Votes: 0

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. Votes: 0

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims. Votes: 0

If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. Votes: 0

not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest. Votes: 0

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. Votes: 0

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. Votes: 0

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood, Votes: 0

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician not even a church politician. Votes: 0

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. Votes: 0

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood Votes: 0

I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith. Votes: 0

It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment. Votes: 0

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it. Votes: 0

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood. Votes: 0

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'. Votes: 0

Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright. Votes: 0

Wikipedia works because those who know the truth are usually more numerous and committed than those who believe in a falsehood. Votes: 0

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself. Votes: 0

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself." Votes: 0

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. Votes: 0

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood. Votes: 0

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. Votes: 0

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood. Votes: 0

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. Votes: 0

Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down. Votes: 0

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood. Votes: 0

Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God. Votes: 0

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us. Votes: 0

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~ Votes: 0

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. Votes: 0

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood. Votes: 0

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age. Votes: 0

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it. Votes: 0

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance. Votes: 0

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes. Votes: 0

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth. Votes: 0

Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship. Votes: 0

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain. Votes: 0

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole. Votes: 0

Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood. Votes: 0

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. Votes: 0

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself. Votes: 0

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things Votes: 0

We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel....Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood. Votes: 0

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood. Votes: 0

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original. Votes: 0

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears. Votes: 0

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth. Votes: 0

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Votes: 0

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood. Votes: 0

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood. Votes: 0

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain. Votes: 0

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it. Votes: 0

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards. Votes: 0

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood. Votes: 0

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood. Votes: 0

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness. Votes: 0

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself. Votes: 0

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end. Votes: 0

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me. Votes: 0

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood. Votes: 0

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. Votes: 0

Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false. Votes: 0

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself. Votes: 0

Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God. Votes: 0

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it. Votes: 0

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal. Votes: 0

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood. Votes: 0

No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood. Votes: 0

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. Votes: 0

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. Votes: 0

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself. Votes: 0

Fire failure by fighting falsehood. Forget the fears; Fix the future; Flee from fake friends. There is nothing called half-truth. Whatever looks like a lie is a lie! Votes: 0

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity. Votes: 0

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood. Votes: 0

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop. Votes: 0

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves. Votes: 0

Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood. Votes: 0

Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty. Votes: 0

Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined Votes: 0

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change. Votes: 0

The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is. Votes: 0

It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy. Votes: 0

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption. Votes: 0

Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood. Votes: 0

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. Votes: 0

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Votes: 0

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Votes: 0

As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely. Votes: 0

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out. Votes: 0

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell. Votes: 0

Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression. Votes: 0

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow. Votes: 0

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood. Votes: 0

Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation is Bravity and being free from falsehood is Purity! Votes: 0

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious. Votes: 0

I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that I'm some sort of charlatan who's been perpetuating this falsehood. Votes: 0

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood. Votes: 0

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty. Votes: 0

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept. Votes: 0

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. Votes: 0

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected. Votes: 0

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so. Votes: 0

Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth Votes: 0

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow. Votes: 0

Throughout the '90s and early 2000s, our financial industry and governments leaned on a snake-oil mirage of wealth creation, a bubble predicated on the obvious falsehood that things could only get better. Votes: 0

... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion; the more they attempt to show themselves, the more they are entangled. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity. Votes: 0

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. Votes: 0

The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records. Votes: 0

The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood. Votes: 0

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. Votes: 0

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. Votes: 0