Falsehood Quotes - page 2

The Art of Peace is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion the Voice of Peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor. (Morihei Ueshiba)
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself. View quote
Ian Hacking
There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. View quote
Paul Bourget
... not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest. View quote
John Dryden
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity. View quote
Tacitus
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen! View quote
Anton LaVey
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine. View quote
Matthew Arnold
But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. View quote
Thomas Moore
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. (William Shenstone)
We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel.... Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood. View quote
Abu Bakar Bashir
While it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know. View quote
Bertrand Russell
When anyone tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority, which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he relates; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. View quote
David Hume
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. View quote
Jonathan Swift
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
This 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. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report. View quote
Ovid
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. View quote
Tryon Edwards