Falsehood quotations

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◆ Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.

- Kahlil Gibran99

◆ Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

- Oscar Wilde98

◆ Falsehood is a perennial spring.

- Edmund Burke98

◆ 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 Colton98

◆ Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another

- Aleister Crowley98

◆ Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Hosea Ballou98

◆ Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh98

◆ Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

- Samuel P Huntington98

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

- Hesiod98

◆ We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

- William James98

◆ Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

- Hosea Ballou98

◆ He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

- Abu Bakr98

◆ Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

- Albert Camus98