Falsehood Quotes - Page 16

• What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Truth, Mountain

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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• The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

  Solomon Asch

  Discovery, Mind, Organs

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• So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus was basically turned on inciting the American public against Iraq and pushing them to accept the American administration's schemes of aggression as a fait accompli, as if it were the solution or the necessary rescue that would allow American citizens to live in security and stability, after what they had gone through in the September 11 attacks.

  Naji Sabri

  Lying, Iraq, Long

  "Saddam's letter to U.N. says U.S. wants oil". www.cnn.com. September 20, 2002.

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• Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.

  David Rice

  Lying, Artist, Men

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• Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

  Anne Mallory

  Easy, Foolhardy

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• It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

  George H. Smith

  Men, Atheism, May

  George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.10, Prometheus Books

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• Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

  Albert Pike

  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

  Clement of Alexandria

  Thinking, Doe, Modesty

  "The Instructor (Complete)".

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• There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.

  David Hume

  Intelligent, Perception Of Beauty, Judgement

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• Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Men, Data, Giving

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• It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

  Adrian Rogers

  Hurt, Errors, Comfort

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• Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.

  Guru Nanak

  Karma, Husband, Doe

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• It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so fettered by the lies and falsehoods they make for themselves, that they cannot see the beauty, goodness, or truth of those meanings. Only a mind that has become free can see such things.

  Yi Mun-yol

  Lying, Mind, World

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• The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart in every way. He scatters faith, oppressing, burning and darkening us inwardly. We must look upon all such actions as illusions and falsehood, and break through this imaginary wall to the Lord, or to His Holy Mother, or His saints. As soon as you break through this wall you will be immediately saved. 'Your faith has made you whole' (Mt. 9:22).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Mother, Wall

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• The Lord called Himself and is the 'good Shepherd' (Jn. 10:11). If you believe in His guidance, then you will understand by your heart that as a zealous shepherd when feeding his flock does not allow the sheep to disperse, but gathers them together, so also the Lord pastures our souls, not allowing them to wander in falsehood and sins, but gathering them on the path of virtue, and not allowing the mental wolf to steal and scatter them.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Believe, Heart

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• Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Reality

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• Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof
  Look! there - before you, a little way off
  There is an empty space
  Between truth and falsehood.

  Amrita Pritam

  Space, Looks, Shelter

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• PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Museums, Practice

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.186, University of Georgia Press

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• People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the "millionaire Conservative party donors". I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

  Richard Dawkins

  Party, Thinking, Views

  "Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible". www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible looking at the pock-marked walls. It's horrible looking at the flesh embedded on walls in Bosnia. It was horrible looking and interviewing and talking to the kids who lost their parents, because Saddam Hussein decided to feed their parents to the lions in downtown Baghdad. To characterize particularly myself, but other groups, as wanting to advocate a war I think is not only disingenuous, I think it's a patent falsehood intentionally created to stigmatize a group of people.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Wall, War

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• My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Common Sense, Mind, Body

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people... have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

  William Cobbett

  Media, Long, People

  "The Last Ten Years". Political Register, January 4, 1812.

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• I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.

  Umar

  Shy, Proud, Disbelievers

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• Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fashion, Acceptance, Intellectual

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Enmity, Natural

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “According to Promise”, p.27, Gideon House Books

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