Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. Votes: 4
Henri Frederic AmielBeyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. Votes: 4
Leonardo da VinciFalsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. Votes: 4
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. Votes: 4
William JamesFalsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. Votes: 3
Richard WhatelyFalsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. Votes: 3
Charles Caleb ColtonFalsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. Votes: 2
Daniel WebsterTelling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? Votes: 2
Anthony HopeTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. Votes: 2
Marcel ProustHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Votes: 2
Thomas JeffersonThere is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul. Votes: 2
Henry Ward BeecherIndiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterIn argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorWho begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterBetter is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood. Votes: 0
Martin Farquhar TupperFire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciWould that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroLarge offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonTruth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauNone can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonImagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalThat practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge. Votes: 0
John MiltonCottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldThere are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineWhat does God think of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood? Votes: 0
Clement of AlexandriaWoman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace. Votes: 0
John of DamascusHistory is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheAccuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. Votes: 0
Tryon EdwardsLike the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion. Votes: 0
Guru NanakTime's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWhen falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? Votes: 0
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyNothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. Votes: 0
David HumeThe dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeMan can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood. Votes: 0
Karl BarthFaith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. Votes: 0
Thomas MooreEveryone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. Votes: 0
Jean GiraudouxIs there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely. Votes: 0
Jeff GannonWe never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereWhen a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence. Votes: 0
E.B. HudspethNo hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen! Votes: 0
Anton Szandor LaVeyA train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. Votes: 0
Joseph ConradMan's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. Votes: 0
Desiderius ErasmusIn the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltTruth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine. Votes: 0
Matthew ArnoldThis is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. Votes: 0
Peace PilgrimI would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood. Votes: 0
Ludwig FeuerbachIn a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood. Votes: 0
Guy DebordWe aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonTruth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisAccuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. Votes: 0
Tryon EdwardsIt is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinDishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonWhat of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneTo lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareRest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood, Votes: 0
Harper Leewe have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood Votes: 0
William JamesI fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith. Votes: 0
UmarI am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it. Votes: 0
John LockeSo near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius Cicero