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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. -- Harold Evans
Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth. -- Lemn Sissay
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy -- George Orwell
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence -- Mahatma Gandhi
By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves. -- Thomas Jefferson
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. -- J. I. Packer
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. -- Norman Tebbit
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down. -- Tulsi
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt. -- Kenneth L. Pike
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. -- George Orwell
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. -- Adyashanti
I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. -- Christopher Hitchens
Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery. -- James Bovard
It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha. -- Galileo Galilei
Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts. -- Lysa TerKeurst
While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual. -- Thomas Jefferson
Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation. -- James H. Cone
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity. -- John Locke
Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth. -- Timothy Noah
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. -- Norman Tebbit
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt. -- Kenneth L. Pike
A new untruth is better than an old truth. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Where there are two people, there is untruth. -- Soren Kierkegaard
A man may think an untruth as well as speak one. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please. -- Shirley Hazzard
Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together -- Mahatma Gandhi
The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it. -- George Orwell
Spirit is the only truth within us, the rest is all untruth. -- Nirmala Srivastava
The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A surfeit of information often hides an untruth," he said, with annoying clarity. -- Jasper Fforde
Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything. -- Albert Camus
When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire. -- Gautama Buddha
They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth. -- Gautama Buddha
God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. -- Thomas Carlyle
The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency. -- Adolf Hitler
The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies. -- Sorin Cerin
When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! -- Robert Herrick
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after. -- William Hazlitt
We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth. -- Swami Vivekananda
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher. -- Mark Twain
If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth. -- Adrian Rogers
Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth? -- Plato
Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation. -- Bryn Hammond
Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background. -- George Orwell
Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it's not funny. -- Ricky Gervais
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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