Falsehood Quotes

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

Truth, Judge, Afraid

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.
John F. Kennedy

Truth, Judge, Afraid

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William Shakespeare

Outside, Goodly, Hath

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

Truth, Liar, Making

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus

Truth, Beautiful, Light

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James

Truth, Today, Live

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

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

Truth, Doubt, Same

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

Love, Truth, Cannot

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.
Alveda King

Human, Lie, Racism

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Blaise Pascal

Both, Ourselves, Disguise

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

Truth, Knowledge, Wise

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr

Truth, May, Another

Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke

Spring, Perennial

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Trust, Truth, Wise

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot

Truth, Difficult, Easy

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

Truth, Infinity, Mode

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

Life, Nothing, Lie

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

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust

Time, True, Everything

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell Lowell

Good, Truth, Evil

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

Fear, Another, Child

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Abu Bakr

Truth, Greatest, Honesty

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth, Silence, May

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus

Truth, Haste, Delay

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth, May, Cannot

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

Truth, Mind, Far

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.
David Hume

Fact, Miracle, Unless

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth, Rather, Against

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Truth, Logic, Prior

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