Untruth Quotes

“...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.

[Letter to William Short, 13 April 1820]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”
― H.L. Mencken

“You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”
― Michael Ende, Momo

“The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Bane of the Black Sword

“You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the  truth has no twin.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Imani ni nia ya kujua kisichoweza kujulikana na hupeleka watu kwenye ukweli. Kuamini hupotosha, na ni nia ya kudharau kinachoweza kujulikana.”
― Enock Maregesi

“I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.”
― Bram Stoker

“The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of one’s own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people’s notions, notions that were being crammed down everybody’s throat.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“I lead a worthless life, he thought, I live in unreality and untruth. If only there could be total change, regeneration, escape. If only I could run and run and get back to the people, back to where real wholesome, ordinary life is being lived. I have given myself a mean role and cannot now stop enacting it. Oh if only I could get out! But even as he thought these familiar thoughts he knew: unreality is my reality, untruth is my truth, I am too old now and I have no other way.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal truths. Thoughts and feelings combine to create profound truths and compose extravagant falsities. Truth making exposes certain falsehoods, and lies shed light upon irrefutable truths. Art reveals the pageantry of nature along with the unmitigated grotesqueness that accompanies an earthly life. The search for truth begins with an intellectual journey into darkness whereas the search for beauty requires an imaginative act trussed with the classical beauty of Apollonian lightness. Aesthetic appreciation represents the perfect reconciliation of the sensual and rational parts of humankind’s animalistic nature. Similar to aesthetic experience – contemplation of beauty without imposition of a worldly agenda – love depends upon human sensory-emotional values, a judgement of values and sentiments.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I cannot remember even my own lies,
how can I remember lessons of history”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Don't show so much attachment to someone that they start lying to keep your heart.”
― Shunya

“Laine had been very proud of herself last night. Nicholas had talked about ghosts and magic and woven a bit of a spell himself. He'd sounded so convincing, so logical, so sad, that she'd found herself wanting to believe him. But testing prods at his argument had made him angry, and long years with Gavin had taught her that angry, defensive people shared the lousy habit of being wrong.”
― Stephen M. Irwin

“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

“Vita ya dhambi hupiganwa katika uwanja wa akili na katika uwanja wa mwili kati ya Shetani na Mungu. Hutumia silaha kuu ya uongo na silaha kuu ya ukweli. Mungu anataka tuujue ukweli. Shetani anataka tuujue uongo. Kushinda vita ya dhambi huna budi kutumia neno la Mungu, kama Yesu alivyolitumia kumshinda Shetani wakati akijaribiwa katika Mlima wa Majaribu wa Jangwa la Yuda.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.”
― Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“I know time doesn't heal. That's the silliest idea of all.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Liars lie. That's what they do. Lying, and in so doing trying to make me lie to myself. Trying to make me not trust my family. Liars lie by cutting you loose from what you thought was so and persuading you this other thing they are waving in front of you is the new truth. ... Liars want you off balance and alone, so you can drown in self-doubt.”
― C. A. Fletcher

“For me, in the ashes, it’s not enough to describe what happened, but to focus unforgivingly on what actually happened, to provide a road map, a game plan for how hell happens, not just in Nazi Germany, but in Stalin’s Russia too.
Not surprisingly, since this is a new phenomenon, there is no word to describe it. So I have to make one up. The new force unleashed on the world is...Totalitarianism.
As fire lives on oxygen, the oxygen of totalitarianism is untruth.
Before totalitarian leaders can fit reality to their lies, their message is an unrelenting contempt for facts. They live by the belief that fact depends entirely on the power of the man who makes it up.”
― Ken Krimstein, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth

“Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Darkness is perhaps the only reality, the only truth, both of which have only one property; they are eternal. What we call light is a mere temporary absence of darkness, untruth, a mere temporary absence of truth. Vedas point to this absence by neti, neti; not this, not this. Both, darkness and truth overcome light and untruth and start becoming manifest, sooner or later, mostly sooner than later, once we believe and strive to experience. Sages, down the ages, have emphasised the learning path to The Truth; prevent light from entering your eyes by shutting them or sitting in a darker area, to make it easier. And a last word; there is no perfect darkness and no perfect truth. These, just two names for the same absence, are goals to which we may get ever closer, without reaching. And priests and scriptures make God so complicated!”
― R. N. Prasher

“Somewhere in the midst of a great story was a profound untruth so dark, that if true, would have wiped the direct line of Detective Frank Geyer’s future generations of family off the face of the earth.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“Sometimes the truth is way more comforting than the misbelief or the lie from which we derive comfort.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." ― George Orwell: Narrative Essays, Tribune, 22 March 1946.”
― George Orwell

“Biggest fallacy of legal system in civilised societies is that ‘truth” has to be proved, so by default ‘untruth’ prevails.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“To say one thing and do another - to take one's own word lightly - cannot inspire trust. To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and negate man [sic] is a lie.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“When an awakened woman expresses her dark feminine energy it's not all love and light, it is a raw, unapologetic, and destructive force meant to shake and crumble every untruth there is.”
― Lorin Krenn