A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone

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.
John F. Kennedy

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Tryon Edwards

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

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.
Jeff Gannon

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.
Samuel Johnson

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea Ballou

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea Ballou

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
Abu Bakr

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Thomas Paine

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Desiderius Erasmus