Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be… — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
“The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims. — Margaret Deland 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
I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“None of us is fully able to perceive the truth that shines through another person’s window, nor the falsehood that we may… — Forrest Church 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
What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
“She also stirred a sort of envy in him by telling him that during the Two Minutes Hate her great difficulty was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“The first chapter of Matthew begins with giving a genealogy of Jesus Christ; and in the third chapter of Luke there is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
No one who lies is linked to God. God is the truth. He says, 'I am the Way, the Truth and the… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace. — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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