Falsehood Quotes

Why did not the believing men and the believing women, when you heard it, think well of their own people, and say: This is an evident falsehood? / Why did they not bring four witnesses of it? But as they have not brought witnesses they are liars before Allah. - Quran

When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. - Bible

What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time. - Chinua Achebe

What we're hearing now is some politicians contradicting their own statements and making a play for political advantage in the middle of a war, ... The saddest part is that our people in uniform have been subjected to these cynical and pernicious falsehoods day in and day out. - Dick Cheney

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. - Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. - John Edward Redmond

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be. - Denis Kearney

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. - Hesiod

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. - William James