Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed… — August Strindberg 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
It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving. — Gilles Duceppe Copy Share Image
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be… — J. William Fulbright 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
For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician. — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
People lie and they tell you what you want to hear. That's how you end up falling in love with the person… — Keren Zhims Copy Share Image
