Truth And Falsehood Quotes

• Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

  Tacitus

  Haste, Delay, Truth Is

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• . . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

  Frank Herbert

  Truth, Light, Knowing

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.20, Penguin

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• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Christian, Peace, War

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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• Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Truth, Oil, Water

  Miguel de Cervantes (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)”, p.1102, Delphi Classics

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• Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

  Georges Braque

  Life, Truth, Reality

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• Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Truth, Philosophical, Infinity

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• Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knows, Falsehood

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

  Daniel Webster

  Truth, Lying, Liars

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.487

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• Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Limping, Truth And Lies, Lies Truth

  Speech by PM Najib Razak at WAN-IFRA 16th Asian Media Awards, www.nst.com.my. April 19, 2017.

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• The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.172, Hackett Publishing

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• It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, Lying, World

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.67

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• In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Mountain, Vain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.129, 谷月社

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• The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Philosophical, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Good Life, Positive Atheism, Values

  "Wisdom and Destiny". Book by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1898.

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• Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Deception, Mind

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

  Niels Bohr

  Opposites, Truth Is, Falsehood

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• It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

  Matthew Arnold

  Death, Truth, Men

  'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853) l. 656

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• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Money

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.125, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Truth, Lying, Deceit

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

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• Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Truth, Tests, Duration

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• A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

  Alfred Adler

  Truth, Lying, Danger In Life

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• Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Successful, Mislead Us, Bait

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• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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