Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked.… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the… — Henry Augustus Rowland Copy Share Image
There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest… — Rachel Klein Copy Share Image
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or… — Plato Copy Share Image
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred… — John Edward Redmond Copy Share Image
A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“We cannot separate doubt from deception. Doubt robs a man of his confidence; it is a fearful thing. Offer him deception to… — D.A. Blankinship 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
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Truth has legs that are longer than any of our lies. In time it will catch up to us, not because the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what?… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on… — Edmund Ezra Day Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“I see no reason for resigning my right to that inventive freedom which others enjoy; and, as I have no truth to… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and,… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpationsall of which have in direct object the establishment… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
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