Falsehood Quotes - Page 7

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

  Hesíodo

  Truth, Real, Speak

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Fire, Darkness

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). "Los cuadernos de Leonardo Da Vinci", p.250, GENERAL PRESS.

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• We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel... Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Islam, Quran, Compromise

  YouTube Channel "Al Jazeera English"/"101 East- Inside Indonesia's Islamic schools", www.youtube.com. August 31, 2007.

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• No hay crimen más infame que la violación de la verdad. Es evidente que los hombres no pueden ser seres sociales mientras no se crean unos a otros. Cuando el habla se emplea sólo como vehículo de la falsedad, cada hombre debe desunirse de los demás, habitar su propia cueva y buscar presa sólo para sí mismo.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Men, Society

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1834). “Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems”, p.375

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• 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.

  Denis Kearney

  Hype, Gold, Needs

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• 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

  Flower, Winning, Names

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• Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Levity, Produce, Malice

  "Aforismos sobre el hombre. Traducido del manuscrito original del reverendo John Caspar Lavater, ciudadano de Zuric ; [Una línea de Juvenal]" por Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.

  Sherwood Anderson

  People, Moments, Grotesque

  1919 Winesburg, Ohio,'The Book of the Grotesque'.

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• God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

  Esquilo

  Mouths, Speak, Knows

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries - Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Religious, Intelligent, Two

  "The World of George Orwell" edited by Miriam Gross, (p. 167), 1972.

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• Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Self, Principles, Faces

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Homeland: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.256, Wizards of the Coast

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• Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.

  Geoffrey B. Wilson

  Prayer, Hate, Hypocrisy

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• On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

  Matthew Arnold

  History, Foam, Bells

  Matthew Arnold (1962). “Lectures and Essays in Criticism”, p.529, University of Michigan Press

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• I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Tragedy, Important

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• Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

  Gurú Nanak

  Illusion, Deceiving, Tricks

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• Una pequeña certeza es mejor que una falsedad portentosa.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Slender, Certainty

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.41, eKitap Projesi

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• I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Race, Discovery

  "What I Believe" by H. L. Mencken, The Forum (American magazine), Volume 84 (p. 139), September 1930.

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• Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Beautiful, Lying, Want

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Dying, Lips

  Matthew Arnold (1961). “Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold”, Houghton Mifflin College Division

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• For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth.

  Lysander Spooner

  Truth, Government, Vices

  Lysander Spooner (2006). “Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Strong, Reality, Events

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.79, 谷月社

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• Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Deceptive, Presumption

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.39, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

  Ian Hacking

  Observation, Inconsistent, Generalization

  Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Lying, Sometimes, Shameful

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.96

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• El cristianismo sólo tiene esperanzas. Ha colgado su arpa en los sauces, y no puede cantar una canción en tierra extraña. Ha soñado un sueño triste, y aún no da la bienvenida a la mañana con alegría. La madre cuenta sus falsedades a su hijo, pero, gracias al cielo, el niño no crece a la sombra de su progenitora. La fe de nuestra madre no ha crecido con su experiencia. Su experiencia ha sido demasiado para ella. La lección de la vida ha sido demasiado dura de aprender para ella.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Dream, Song

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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