I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none. — Noam Chomsky 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
My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an… — Amrita Pritam Copy Share Image
Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors;… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
I said you lie, knave!” shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. “And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!” The knight looked… — Gerald Morris 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
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“It's so important to identify beliefs. Because once you identify [a negative belief], once you bring it into the light, you will… — Bashar Copy Share Image
“Truth came home one day, naked and wounded, having been beaten and cursed by the people who did not wish to hear,… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Pride is false sense of confidence that makes one feel as better than someone else because of what they have done and… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods. — Thomas Jefferson 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
The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on… — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr 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
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
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith. — Umar 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