“You can habitually lie to me, but in the long term it is probably not going to go well for you.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Falsehoods not only disagree with truth, but usually quarell among themselves.” — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.” — Rick DeStefanis Copy Share Image
Partial truth or Half-truth are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
“beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It's so important to identify beliefs. Because once you identify [a negative belief], once you bring it into the light, you will… — Bashar Copy Share Image
“But no one who studies autocratic propaganda believes that fact-checking or even swift reactions are sufficient. By the time the correction is… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“If misinformation is inaccurate information, and disinformation is deliberate falsehoods — what's a simple way to remember the difference? 'Mis' for mistake,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“I once came upon a definition of history as ‘the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods’. That is… — Sharon Kay Penman 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
“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
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“According to the gospels, Christ healed diseases, cast out devils, rebuked the sea, cured the blind, fed multitudes with five loaves and… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I did say that to deny the existence of evil spirits, or to deny the existence of the devil, is to deny… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Donald Trump both disbelieves and believes in falsehoods, so that when he did thrive on his longstanding - the claim that Obama… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Remember, Will Henry, some falsehoods are borne of necessity not foolishness.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image