Quotes of: Untruth Keyword

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Miroslav Volf

I looked at Mum and realized -- -- that she was telling an untruth. A untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something so untrue, as opposed to the little amateur fibs I was already practiced at ...

Losing Mum and Pup

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer ...

Mahatma Gandhi

If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning...

The Space Race

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of "world history"- yet only a minute....

On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

Harold Evans

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a stea...

Walter Kaufmann

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Ira Glass

Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.

Timothy Noah

I pressed my dark issues to the back of my mind and smiled a slight untruthful happiness . . .

Forever Stuck

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

I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.

Gina Rodriguez

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Norman Tebbit

The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.

Sorin Cerin

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Karl A. Menninger

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

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,...

R. N. Prasher