Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence. — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it! — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“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
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and… — Glenn Greenwald 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
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and… — Al Gore 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
“There is another problem. Echo chambers can lead people to believe in falsehoods, and it may be difficult or impossible to correct… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“If our relationships are made of many small lies, they become something larger, a prison of falsehoods.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out. — Brian Stelter Copy Share Image
A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. — Travis Walton Copy Share Image
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very… — Samuel Johnson 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
Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These… — Carolyn Elliott Copy Share Image
