There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The truth is like a dried dandelion; how suddenly it can be whisked away, only to leave behind gleanings of uncertainty ...” — Nanette L. Avery Copy Share Image
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal… — Leonardo da Vinci 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
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
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 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
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Bulshytt: (1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a derogatory term for false speech in general, esp. knowing… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't have clear contact with reality, though I'm not sure it qualifies as a bona fide delusion. He needs things… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood, — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Never underestimate your friends capabilities it may cost you the respect you deserve. — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
