Falsehood Quotes

• To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Suffer
  • Falsehood

• There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just 'that way' and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil. No one is locked into that kind of life. From our premoral life we were directed into a physical body. There is no mismatching of bodies and spirits. Boys are to become men-masculine, manly men-ultimately to become husbands and fathers. No one is predestined to a perverted use of these powers.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Lie
  • Desires
  • Attraction

• Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Hope

• There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Justice
  • Means
  • Falsehood

• Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so too does a man incur the guilt of falsehood who, on the part of the Church, gives worship to God contrary to the manner established by the Church or divine authority, and according to ecclesiastical custom.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Church
  • Guilty

• God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • God
  • Circumstances
  • Resilience

• Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Power
  • Lie
  • Materia Prima

• A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Opportunity
  • Cheat
  • Deliberately

• Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Time
  • Falsehood
  • Passes

• Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.

  

  David Rice
  • Opinion
  • Lying
  • Insult

• There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Error
  • Leading

• Affectation is the product of falsehood.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Product
  • Affection
  • Falsehood

• The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Dust
  • Falsehood
  • Controversy

• It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.

  

  Elton Welsby
  • Sometimes
  • Needs
  • Benefits

• It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • World
  • Men
  • Taken

• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Truth
  • Hurts
  • Falsehood

• The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Nature
  • Woman
  • Advantages

• A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Lie
  • Atmosphere
  • Falsehood

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