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

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William Shakespeare

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

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
Charles D. Broad

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

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Jean Rostand

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
Anthony Hope

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

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

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
Ernestine Rose

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

The priest is the personification of falsehood.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
Leslie Stephen

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim

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

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert

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

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

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