Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water." ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50.… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
You may be liar in front of everyone.. You may feel guilty not knowing how to prove yourself to others to be… — Nushra Copy Share Image
For me, choosing happiness has to be something that's conscious, a choice, something I act on. And I think this is something… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann 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
“God is not as a man.” He thus shows that all men are indeed guilty of falsehood, inasmuch as they change from… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
“{ On the death of Hale's esteemed friend and fellow scientist, Luther Burbank . Burbank was much beloved by the population unil… — Wilbur Hale Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't have clear contact with reality, though I'm not sure it qualifies as a bona fide delusion. He needs things… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“Bulshytt: (1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a derogatory term for false speech in general, esp. knowing… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Never underestimate your friends capabilities it may cost you the respect you deserve. — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
“Fear is the only consequence of every sort of falsehood.” — Dostoyevsky Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
