Quotes on Truth And Falsehood

The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

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

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

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.