Falsehood Quotes
Falsehood Quote of the day
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.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
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.
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.
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
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.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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.
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.
Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.
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.
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.
He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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.
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.
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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.
It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.
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.
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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.
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.
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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.
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.
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.