Falsehood

Falsity or falsehood is an perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party. Falsity is also a measure of the quality or extent of the falseness of something, while a falsehood may also mean simply an incorrect (false) statement, independent of any intention to deceive.

Quotes

• Let no one say that in this case it is possible for “truth” in its turn by the help of the press to get the better of lies and errors. You who speak thus, do you venture to maintain that men regarded as a crowd are just as quick to seize upon truth which is not always palatable as upon falsehood which always is prepared delicately to give delight? … Or do you venture even to maintain that “truth” can just as quickly be understood as falsehood, which requires no preliminary knowledge, no schooling, no discipline, no abstinence, no self-denial, no honest concern about oneself, no patient labor?
  • Søren Kierkegaard, in Walter Kaufmann, Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (2016), p. 98.

• And do not mix the truth with falsehood or conceal the truth while you know (it).
  • Quran 2:42

• Say, "Indeed, those who invent falsehood about Allah will not succeed."
  • Quran 10:69

• That is because Allah is the Truth, and that which they call upon other than Him is falsehood, and because Allah is the Most High, the Grand.
  • Quran 22:62

• And (they are) those who do not testify to falsehood, and when they pass near ill speech, they pass by with dignity.
  • Quran 25:72

See also

• Dishonesty
• Error
• Lying
• Propaganda
• Truth