“Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
“Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“She also stirred a sort of envy in him by telling him that during the Two Minutes Hate her great difficulty was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not… — Edmund Ezra Day Copy Share Image
“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Understanding media alone will not bring about a better world (the Kingdom of God?), but ought to be the foundation of good… — Peter K. Fallon Copy Share Image
The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be… — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith. — Umar Copy Share Image
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Reason will always be logical, Logic not always reasonable, For truth from reason derivable, And logic falsehood multipliable.” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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