When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“The truth is like a dried dandelion; how suddenly it can be whisked away, only to leave behind gleanings of uncertainty ...” — Nanette L. Avery Copy Share Image
Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water.… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of… — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest… — Rachel Klein Copy Share Image
[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed,… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image