Falsehood quotes

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◆ People lie and they tell you what you want to hear. That's how you end up falling in love with the person you thought they were.

- 100

◆ Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ The priest is the personification of falsehood

- Giuseppe Garibaldi99

◆ 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 Newton99

◆ Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

- Georges Braque99

◆ Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

- Samuel P Huntington99

◆ It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

- Anthony Collins99

◆ Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

- Publius Cornelius99

◆ Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra99

◆ The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

- Niels Bohr99

◆ In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity

- Chamfort99

◆ In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

- Walter Savage Landor99

◆ Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

- Leonardo Da Vinci99

◆ The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

- Travis Walton99