Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Personal identification with a name and form is false, it hides the Truth. In reality, there is no separate individuality. What we… — Akshay Kulkarni Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water." ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50.… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood. — Chrysippus Copy Share Image
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man… — George Francis Train Copy Share Image
Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There's nothing to be guilty when the whole world stands against you to prove you are wrong, when your heart says you… — Nushra Copy Share Image
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood. — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
