Falsehood Quotes

• He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Wisdom, Fun

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• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Anger, Empathy

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• 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.

  Charles Churchill

  Wings, Giving, Age

  Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.177

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• Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Truth, Oil, Water

  Miguel de Cervantes (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)”, p.1102, Delphi Classics

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

  William James

  Life, Trust, Truth

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Christian, Peace, War

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Religion, Truth Is

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

  Saadi

  Truth, Lying, Cutting

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Fake People, Children, Fear

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 49, 1969.

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

  Tacitus

  Haste, Delay, Truth Is

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• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  William Shenstone

  Liars, Lying, Ends

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151

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• The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Firsts, Misery, Sincerity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.339

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Lying, Duplicity, Dishonesty

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Atmosphere, Pestilence

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• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Bait, Carp

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Lear. Othello”, p.47

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• Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood

  Umar

  Wisdom, Islamic, Truth Is

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

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.120, Vintage

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• Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

  John Milton

  Strength, Truth, Wind

  Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

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• Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth And Falsehood, Knows

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, Lying, World

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.67

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

  Frank Herbert

  Truth, Light, Knowing

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.20, Penguin

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• 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

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.

  Newt Gingrich

  Sunday, Said, Ads

  "Newt Apologizes To Paul Ryan, Begs Democrats Not To Use His Own Quotes In Ads" by Benjy Sarlin, talkingpointsmemo.com. May 17, 2011.

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• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Truth, Lying, Deceit

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

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