Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright. — Elias Lyman Magoon 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
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
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal 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
There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
