Best Falsehood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 14

“The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people... have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.”

People Long Seems Lasts Spirit Media Empty Trade Presses Tricks Budgets Falsehood Buoys

Author:William Cobbett

“Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?”

Years Believe Feelings Turns Belief Left Differences Media Accounts Paid Falsehood Swear Truth And Falsehood

Book:Miscellaneous writings

Source: Miscellaneous writings

“We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.”

Ifs Knows Needs Used Force Arms Gold Defeat Fraud Falsehood Hype Defiance

Author:Denis Kearney

“Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.”

Men Mind Atheism Positive Atheism Deception Deceit Falsehood Susceptible Truth And Falsehood

Book:Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis

Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis

“There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.”

Men Believe Social Society Crime Speech Every Man Vehicle Falsehood Employed Caves Prey Violation Infamous Social Being

Book:Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems

Source: Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems

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

Darkness Fire Intelligent Driving Falsehood Sophistry

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.”

Knows Real Truth Speak Know How Falsehood Real Things True Things

Author:Hesiod

“The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.”

Flying Dust Falsehood Controversy

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.”

“Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.”

Self Eye Values Praise Tongue Falsehood Self Praise

Author:Arnold Bennett

“The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.”

Way Ideas Combat Falsehood

Author:William O. Douglas

“As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.”

Past Companion Falsehood Fearlessness

Book:Nehru on Gandhi

Source: Nehru on Gandhi

“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.”

Facts Certain Turns Doubt Importance Falsehood Posterity Obscurity Exaggerated Transactions Precarious Hearsay

Book:The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. With Notes ...

Source: The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. With Notes ...

“Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.”

Loses Gains Falsehood

Author:Maimonides

“Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.”

Way Stills Different Hundred Shadow Excuse Different Ways Falsehood Tested Shrinks

Author:Chris Johnson

“We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.”

Mark Aim Falsehood Exaggeration

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.”

Ifs Giving Should Hate Violence Hatred Selfishness Hated Falsehood Flavor

Author:Ludwig Borne

“Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no doubt that...in its biological application, at any rate, this statement is one of the most stupendous falsehoods ever uttered by man through his misbegotten gift of articulate speech.”

Men May Values Born Race Fiction Doubt Equal Speech Rate Statements No Doubt Application Falsehood Sociological Born Free

Author:Earnest Hooton

“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.”

Ifs Men Long Attention Truth Is Long Time Aspect Falsehood

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.”

Mind Believe Looks Has Beens Eye Lying Masters Depth Falsehood

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.”

Giving Evil Asks Race Atheism Mankind Positive Atheism Distinction Good And Evil Idols Superstitions Falsehood Indifferent Truth And Falsehood Incorrigible

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.”

Men Lying Fire Ice Falsehood Truth And Lies

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.”

Lying Misfortunes Falsehood Jockeys

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.”

War Air Elements Falsehood

Author:Jean Giraudoux

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

I Can Falsehood

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.”

Men Helping Lying Found Grain Falsehood

Book:Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer

Source: Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer

“Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.”

Lying Nurse Falsehood Cradle

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.”

Falsehood Mischief Stirring Mingling

Author:Saadi

“Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.”

Children Natural And Love Tales Falsehood

Book:The Works of George Santayana

Source: The Works of George Santayana

“Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.”

Littles Falsehood Twins Elders Truth And Falsehood

Book:The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir

“That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.”

Made Character Conversation Hypocrisy Falsehood Civility

Book:A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

“Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?”

Truth Encounters Falsehood Truth And Falsehood

Author:John Milton

“If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.”

Ifs World Would Be Lying Doubt Genius Fancy No Doubt Falsehood Pale Inquiry Robes

Book:Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

“A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again”

Ifs Men Feels Mind Facts Suffering Hate Cases Wall Beats Enlightenment Blind Falsehood Captives

Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.”