Quotes about Falsehood
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.
- Anonymous
The powers of insanity never slept, always vying for a voice that justified their lies. Insanity. The insane self. The false self. The flesh self. The ego, the mistaken mind, the costume, the roommate…
- Ted Dekker
What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?
- John Wycliffe
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
- Frank Herbert
all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes
- Samuel Beckett
These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.
- John Milton
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
- John Milton
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
- John Milton
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
- John Milton
It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.
- Charles Dickens
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.
- Jonathan Edwards