Untruth Quotes

• Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
  has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
  crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
  through the facade of pretence. It's the
  complete eradication of everything we
  imagined to be true.

  Adyashanti

  Becoming Better, Enlightenment, Crumbling

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True

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• Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morning, Peace, Ill Will

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1965). “Collected works”

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

  J. I. Packer

  Half, Truth Is, Whole

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• Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

  George Orwell

  Mad, Nineteen, Minorities

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

  Simon Sinek

  Lying, People, Disappoint

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2013

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• It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Mean, Vices

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• The more we read God’s truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we’ll spend contemplating untruths.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Religious, Time

  Twitter post from Feb 19, 2016

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• By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Men, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.97

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• The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Believe, Guilt, Pay

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• Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Lying, Mind, Toxic

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 19, 2016

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• Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Truth, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Self, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• A lie cannot live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Liars, Lying, Deception

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• The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Writing, Law

  De Oratore. It is more important that these maxims be observed by U.S. intelligence analysts than by historians.

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• When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Truth, Lying, Silence

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• I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

  Jesse Ventura

  Truth, Lying, Personality

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Dec 22, 2014

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• Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

  Ariana Franklin

  Running, Strong, Lying

  Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.299, Penguin

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• It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions. You could make truths out of untruths and untruths out of truths. Until you spoke them, really said them out loud or checked for sure, you may not have known which were which.

  Deb Caletti

  Mind, Stories, May

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• I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Injustice, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.66, Hackett Publishing

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• In the midst of death life persists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Midst, Darkness To Light

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Poison, Littles

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• While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Yoga, Light, Darkness

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

  Gautama Buddha

  What Matters, Desire, Truth Is

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• Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

  George Orwell

  Motivational, Enemy, Truth Is

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