Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
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
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
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
There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something - and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water.… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 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
But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our society has been hypnotized into believing that a student who is successful in school will be successful in life, and, although… — Alec Sahakian Copy Share Image
Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual,… — John Tillotson 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
There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or… — Plato Copy Share Image
I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest… — Rachel Klein Copy Share Image
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred… — John Edward Redmond 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
Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked.… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the… — Henry Augustus Rowland Copy Share Image
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what?… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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