A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Saint Augustine
Affectation is the product of falsehood. Thomas Carlyle
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. Edgar Degas
Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. Desiderius Erasmus
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. Walter Savage Landor
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed. Livy
All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity. Friedrich Nietzsche
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. John Ruskin
In a false quarrel there is no true valour. William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing, 5:i)
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates