Words matter. These are the best Falsehood Quotes from famous people such as Miguel de Cervantes, Brian Stelter, Hesiod, Glenn Greenwald, Michael Moore, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we’ve got to call that out.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in a way that the traditional model of journalism and its closed, insular, one-way form of communication could never do.
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
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.
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.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
The ‘problem lies’ are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.
Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of ‘racial tensions’ is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks’ perceptions or the leftist libel.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
Together, the western elites and Gaddafi helped to lead us into a simplistic two-dimensional vision of the world – full of exaggerations and falsehoods. A fake bubble of certainty that has imprisoned us in the West – and is now preventing us from understanding what is really going on in the world outside.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
It’s a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
Mastered by deadly passions, Rigaud has dug a gulf at your feet; he has laid snares which you could not avoid. He wished to have you as partisans in his revolt; and to succeed in his object, he has employed falsehood and seduction.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
I’ll never understand why people somehow support pollution. It’s completely irrational, and I don’t get it. Somewhere along the line, they bought into this fiction that one has to choose between the environment and business, which is just a complete falsehood and absurd.
‘Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
One of the greatest falsehoods of American politics over the past several decades is that the Republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility.
For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
We have to challenge lies. We have to challenge falsehoods and conspiracy theories. If you don’t, they fester – unchecked and unchallenged.
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.
What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.
I’m not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
I think it’s a falsehood to think you can have some kind of plan. Acting isn’t like that, it’s more vocational, I think.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
The t-shirts that declare ‘Girls Rule the World’ offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there.
The priest is the personification of falsehood.
