It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
“It is the responsibility, yet the individual choice, of each of us to use the light we have to dispel the work… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
