Quotes about Falsity

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

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have persuaded this people to trust in a lie.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.

If lying and fabrication are psychologically harmful even in ordinary relations with other men (a sphere where a certain amount of falsification is not uncommon) all falsity is disastrous in any relation with the ground of our own being

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.