“Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Only the Truth of God shall set you free from every falsehood.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. (Misattributed to George Orwell)” — Selwyn Duke Copy Share Image
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few. — Seneca the Younger 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding… — Tim Macartney-Snape Copy Share Image
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
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