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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. -- Aleister Crowley
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. -- Albert Camus
Falsehood is a perennial spring. -- Edmund Burke
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. -- Hosea Ballou
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.... -- Hosea Ballou
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -- William Shakespeare
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. -- Blaise Pascal
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. -- William Shenstone
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. -- William James
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. -- Blaise Pascal
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
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Falsehood always punishes itself. -- Frank Auerbach
Falsehood is for a season. -- Walter Savage Landor
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune. -- Jean Giraudoux
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. -- George Eliot
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage -- Hosea Ballou
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. -- Tacitus
Falsehood is never in words; it is in things. -- Italo Calvino
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. -- Jonathan Swift
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. -- Samuel Johnson
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another -- Aleister Crowley
Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one. -- Raheel Farooq
Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood -- Umar
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. -- Richard Whately
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself. -- Berthold Auerbach
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. -- Richard Whately
Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? -- John Milton
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. -- Thomas Hobbes
Truth is brighter than Light Falsehood darker than night Revenge is keener than Axe and Love is softer than melting wax -- Cassandra Clare
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. -- Arnold Bennett
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. -- Frank Herbert
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. -- Frank Herbert
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth. -- George Eliot
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood. -- Will Rogers
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. -- Jonathan Swift
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
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Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all. -- Richard Whately
Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life. -- John Cheever
My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will. -- Jonathan Swift
Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride. -- Sivananda
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right -- Charles Caleb Colton
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer. -- Edmund Burke
Oh, what is brighter than the light?What is darker than the night?What is keener than an axe?What is softer than melting wax?Truth is brighter than the light,Falsehood darker than the night.Revenge is keener than an axe,And love is softer than melting wax. -- Cassandra Clare
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. -- Georges Braque
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. -- Abu Bakr
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. -- Daniel Webster
Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood, -- Newt Gingrich
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. -- Tacitus
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? -- Anthony Hope
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. -- Marcel Proust
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth. -- Aristotle
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul. -- Henry Ward Beecher
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. -- Samuel Johnson
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. -- James Russell Lowell
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. -- Robert Southey
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. -- Jean Rostand
There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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. -- David Hume
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated. -- Alveda King
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. -- John Edward Redmond
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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
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
Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. -- John Tillotson
Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind. -- Charles Godfrey Leland
The priest is the personification of falsehood -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented -- Georges Braque
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it -- Samuel Johnson
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity -- Chamfort
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding -- Isaac Newton
Affectation is the product of falsehood. -- Thomas Carlyle
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation -- Willard Van Orman Quine
There has never been nationhood without falsehood. -- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. -- Robert Pinsky
falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe. -- Fanny Burney
The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood. -- Arthur Koestler
The priest is the personification of falsehood. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. -- Walter Savage Landor
Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood. -- Leonardo da Vinci
There is truth and falsehood in a comma. -- Tom Stoppard
tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood. -- Maria Edgeworth
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. -- Leslie Stephen
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. -- Samuel Johnson
A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie. -- Thornton Wilder
For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. -- John Milton
A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth. -- Saadi
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. -- Thomas Paine
All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart. -- James Russell Lowell
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth. -- William Shakespeare
The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. -- Thomas Carlyle
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood. -- Thomas Jefferson
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood. -- Aldous Huxley
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth. -- Mikhail Bakunin
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. -- Walter Savage Landor
It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving. -- Gilles Duceppe
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told. -- Herodotus
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. -- Czeslaw Milosz
Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood. -- Max Anders
The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen. -- Bryant McGill
A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood. -- Philip Sidney
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. -- Hosea Ballou
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report. -- Ovid

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