Top 100 Quotes About Untruth
#1. In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. A crowd in its very concept is the untruth, by reason of the fact that it renders the individual completely impenitent and irresponsible, or at least weakens his sense of responsibility by reducing it to a fraction.
Soren Kierkegaard
#3. What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. You care for nothing, Eliza." "That, Tomas, is an untruth. I care very deeply for myself and quite possibly a small amount for you. I have not yet decided on that matter.
Mark Tufo
#5. Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with untruth, seek truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.
Thomas Jefferson
#7. Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us - or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. The majority is almost always wrong. The crowd is untruth. Scapegoating is demonic.
Brian Zahnd
#11. We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.
Swami Vivekananda
#12. Uh-huh, she said. He was beginning to recognize that was her way of indicating untruth.
Kresley Cole
#13. What is there but untruth and heartbreak wherever you go?
Dorothy Dunnett
#14. 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
#15. Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
Albert Schweitzer
#16. Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
Norman Tebbit
#17. 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
#18. At each moment, our seemingly objective world emerges from the dancing of consciousness with a single untruth: that there is something out there which is not us.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#19. Is that true?
There is truth in it.
And lies as well?
There is an untruth, and an exaggeration.
George R R Martin
#20. 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
#21. A little bird whispers in my ear: Be fair! Nobody, no country, has a monopoly of untruth.
Salman Rushdie
#23. Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. 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 L. Pike
#26. Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.
William Barrett
#27. It was a lie and I detected it at once. As an accomplished fibber myself, I spotted the telltale signs of an untruth before they were halfway out of his mouth: the excessive detail, the offhand delivery, and the wrapping-up of it all in casual chitchat.
Alan Bradley
#28. They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
Gautama Buddha
#29. People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.
Salman Rushdie
#30. Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
Albert Camus
#31. At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so, it can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature.
Maggie Gallagher
#32. It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
Thomas Carlyle
#33. Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness
your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture ... He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.
Mark Twain
#36. I've been taught that relationships are supposed to be built from trust, but we're a walking untruth - solely made from love.
Mary Elizabeth
#37. Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. Ivan couldn't think of a religion that was any damn good at making utter truthtellers out of its practitioners. Maybe the Quakers were truly plainspoken at one time, but even they managed to squeeze out a Richard Nixon after a few hundred years of suppressing their human propinquity for untruth.
Orson Scott Card
#40. What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.
Ira Levin
#41. True knowledge is not to be had solely through a combat against error, bad faith and untruth, but more generally, through a combat against the illusions inherent in the sensible world.
Luc Ferry
#42. True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.
Thomas Hobbes
#43. Ahimsa is the very definition of woman and there is no place for untruth in her heart. If she is true to herself she is no longer Abala
the weak, but she is Sabala
the strong ...
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it's not funny.
Ricky Gervais
#45. We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.
Tulsi
#46. It is frightening, how one lie is just the first strand in an ever increasing fabric of untruth. And once this fabric is woven, it is very hard to unravel.
Juliet Marillier
#47. The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.
Sorin Cerin
#48. The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.
Pope Benedict XVI
#49. The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. And that's why I've chosen to write these pages as I've written them. For only by stepping into the middle zone, the polychrome edge between truth and untruth, is it tolerable to be here and writing this at all.
Donna Tartt
#53. Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.
Shirley Hazzard
#55. There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency.
Adolf Hitler
#57. I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists ... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.
Russell Crowe
#58. A myth ... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.
Christopher Vogler
#59. Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy
George Orwell
#60. 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
#61. No,' said the priest, 'we must not accept everything is true, we must only accept it is necessary.'
'A dismal thought,' said K., 'it makes untruth into a universal principle.
Franz Kafka
#62. One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.
D.H. Lawrence
#63. The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
Harold Evans
#64. As Kierkegaard said, "To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions.
Brian Zahnd
#65. Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.
Timothy Noah
#67. One or many believers don't determine the truth or untruth.
Frank Sonnenberg
#68. 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
#69. Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.
Robert A. Heinlein
#71. There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude
Thornton Wilder
#72. 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
#73. A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
Mahatma Gandhi
#74. Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.
Lemn Sissay
#75. It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth
whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.
Galileo Galilei
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.
Tryon Edwards
#79. The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.
Theodore Roosevelt
#80. President Bush's 'Mission Accomplished,' declaration from the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003 was not just premature, but an untruth.
Greg Barron
#81. Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
John Locke
#82. To generate untruth, you have to do a lot of things. For truth, there is nothing to do - anyway it is there.
Sadghuru
#83. 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
#85. A surfeit of information often hides an untruth, he said, with annoying clarity.
Jasper Fforde
#86. 'Twould be easy to say 'tis a gift, but 'twould also be an untruth. Beauty and compliments are always to be found in the truth, when not maliciously brought to light.
Sam Knight
#87. When the tempter me pursueth
With the sins of all my youth,
And half damns me with untruth,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
Robert Herrick
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth's charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?
Colleen Chen
#91. Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
Christopher Hitchens
#93. With the truth on your side, you are powerful even if you are all alone; with the untruth on your side, you are weak even if you are backed by billions!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
Gautama Buddha
#95. Truth does not become untruth simply because its existence upsets the scion of a High House.
Jim Butcher
#96. My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.
Vincent Van Gogh
#97. I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.
Sorin Cerin
#99. The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.
George Orwell
#100. Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.
E. V. Lucas
