Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that… — Plato Copy Share Image
I don't think CNN is 'fake news.' I think there are some reports everywhere, in print, on TV, on radio, in conversation,… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I know that if enough people shout a falsehood, people start to think it's true and a lot of people don't do… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Theological error is the most pernicious of errors; it strikes at man's center and separates him from his Creator and Redeemer. God… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our society has been hypnotized into believing that a student who is successful in school will be successful in life, and, although… — Alec Sahakian Copy Share Image
“The church needs to arise not just against total and absolute ignorance, the church also needs to arise against half-truth or falsehood,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel... Islam is the truth and all else… — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone… — George Sand Copy Share Image
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Magic was well-crafted lies woven into stories no one believed were true, even though they delighted in seeing the convincing falsehood with… — Gwenda Bond Copy Share Image
“What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money.… — George Soros Copy Share Image
There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines,… — Thomas Cooper Copy Share Image
Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water.… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something - and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
