Falsehood Quotes
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.
Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.
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.
I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.
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.
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
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.
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.
Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.
Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?
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.
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
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.
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.
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.
Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
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.
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.
