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