#Falsehood Quotes

“Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.”

“Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!”

“Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!”

“Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.”

“O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”

“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.”

“If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.”

“Falsehood falsehood cures”

“To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.”

“To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.”

“The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.”

“To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.”

“It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.”

“It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.”

“The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.”

“[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”

“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.”

“I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.”

“The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.”

“Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.”

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

“It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.”

“The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.”

“Falsehoods border on truths.”

“History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.”

“Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.”

“Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.”

“There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.”

“Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.”

“Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.”

“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”

“Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.”

“Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.”

“Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?”

“Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”

“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.”

“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”

“Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.”

“I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.”

“What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.”

“Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides.”

“No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.”

“It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.”

“It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.”

“There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.”

“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.”

“There is a false love that will make you something you are not.”

“Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.”

“By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.”

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