Falsehood Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• False as the fowler's artful snare.

  Tobias Smollett

  Snares

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.251

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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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• My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Done, Truth Is

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• We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Knavery, Deceit, Add

  "Characters", XI, 1688.

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• The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Vanity, Hypocrisy

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• If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

  Ludwig Borne

  Hate, Giving, Hatred

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

  Hosea Ballou

  Exaggeration Is, Blood, Relation

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• It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

  Albert Einstein

  Sometimes, Truth Is, Easy

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

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• Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Practice

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.556

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• It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.

  Eusebius

  Scary, Needs, Use

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• Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Limping, Truth And Lies, Lies Truth

  Speech by PM Najib Razak at WAN-IFRA 16th Asian Media Awards, www.nst.com.my. April 19, 2017.

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• It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Lying, Men, Helping

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer”

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• Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Lying, Men

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• Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

  A. B. Simpson

  Christian, Fear, Thinking

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

  Peter Watts

  Believe, Heart, Odds

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• The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

  Travis Walton

  Truth, People, Billions

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• Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

  Karl Barth

  Lying, Men, Doe

  Karl Barth (2003). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part2: The Election of God; The Command of God”, p.317, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

  Anthony Collins

  Evil, Judging, Willing

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• A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

  Simone Weil

  Wall, Hate, Men

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, Doubt, Would Be

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.222

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• Falsehood always punishes itself.

  Frank Auerbach

  Lying

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• This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Reflection, Vocabulary, Doe

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.106, Routledge

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• It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.

  Gilles Duceppe

  Community, States

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• The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

  Leslie Stephen

  Sir Leslie Stephen (1873). “Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking”, p.361

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