Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion. — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there… — John Stuart Mill 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
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
