It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day. — Karl Kautsky Copy Share Image
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you.… — Jason Beghe Copy Share Image
The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“For the next four years, they will again and again tout themselves as “real” and I will be too naïve to know… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp… — Manton S. Eddy Copy Share Image
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Are designations congruent with things? Is language the adequate expression of all realities? It is only by means of forgetfulness that man… — Friedrich Neitzsche Copy Share Image
We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
“For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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