Untruth Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Untruth". There are currently 3 quotes in our collection about Untruth. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Untruth!
The best sayings about Untruth that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts.

    Lying   Mind   Toxic  
    FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 19, 2016
  • Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

  • The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.

    Spiritual   War   America  
    "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, www.informationclearinghouse.info. April 30, 1967.
  • Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.

  • Spirit is the only truth within us, the rest is all untruth.

    Love   Wisdom   Yoga  
  • Where there are two people, there is untruth.

    Spiritual   Two   People  
  • Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3810, Manonmani Publishers
  • 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.

    Gandhi (Mahatma) (1938). “Cent per cent Swadeshi: or, The economics of village industries”
  • Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

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

  • The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 7, 1799.
  • Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

    Art   Passion   Winning  
  • The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

    Enemy   Felt   Untruth  
    George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”
  • 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.

    Lying   Mean   Vices  
    Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.81, Courier Corporation
  • By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

    Believe   Men   Politics  
    Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.97
  • They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

  • 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.

    Trying   Truth Is   Ifs  
  • The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific reasons to doubt the facticity of evolution, would be propagating a plain untruth.

    Letter to J. Kunamoto, 1972.
  • Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

    Lying   Men   Done  
    1598 Dogberry to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.1, l.208-12.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Believe   Guilt   Pay  
  • In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalisation. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

    Glasses   Air   People  
    "Written on the Body". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1992.
  • Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

  • 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.

  • We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

    Children   Lying   Men  
    Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.349, eKitap Projesi
  • I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.

    Song   War   Army  
    George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press
  • 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 (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True
  • 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 (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.77, Vintage
  • 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!

    Religious   Art   Science  
  • The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

    George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”
Page of
We hope our collection of Untruth quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Untruth is constantly growing (today it includes 3 sayings from famous people about Untruth), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Untruth!