Quotes about Falsity
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
- Mark Twain
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.
- Jeremiah 28:15
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
- Edmund Burke
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
- Lyman Beecher
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
- Thomas Merton
To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!
- Herman Melville
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
- JI Packer
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.
- Adrian Rogers
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
- Karl Barth
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.
- William James
all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes
- Samuel Beckett