Untruth Quotes

• Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Giving
  • Blow
  • Falsehood

• Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Violence
  • Untruth

• To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Philosophy
  • Untruth
  • Resisting

• If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • Truth
  • Liberate
  • Untruth

• A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Information
  • Untruth
  • Surfeit

• If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Ifs

• There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.

  

  Abelardo Morell
  • Done
  • Forever
  • Photography

• Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Shadows

• Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Heart
  • Faults
  • Meanness

• There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion.

  

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn
  • Soul
  • Religion
  • Untruth

• Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Direct
  • Parliament
  • Mislead

• 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
  • Untruth

• Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

  

  Plato
  • Wisdom
  • Loves
  • Truthfulness

• Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Laws
  • Untruth

• 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
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Violence

• The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Problem
  • Feels
  • Speak

• When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Desire
  • Temptation
  • Untruth

• Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Crowd
  • Untruth

• I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

  

  Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Women
  • Mountain
  • Spots