A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
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
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen! — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
What's Done Can't Be Undone: In Life There Are Some Things Once Done Or Decisions Once Made Cannot Be changed; Malicious Words… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It’s weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the… — Howard L. Salter Copy Share Image
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
