Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
“[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose,… — Christine de Pizan 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
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
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
