Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty,… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sugar coating things makes people feel better, but it also gives them false hope, and it keeps them holding onto the wrong… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
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
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been… — Amelia Bloomer 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
“Every lying thought bears in itself a proof of its falsehood. This proof is its deadly effect upon the heart;” — St. John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes… — Charles D. Broad Copy Share Image
It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Propaganda is the evil twin of Fiction: while Fiction is the art of telling the truth without ever telling the truth, Propaganda… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Sometimes with girls they pretend to not like someone, when they really do. Sometimes with guys they pretend to like someone, when… — Anonymous 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… — D.C. Talk Copy Share Image
It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth… — Charles Spurgeon 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
Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man… — George Francis Train Copy Share Image
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood. — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
There's nothing to be guilty when the whole world stands against you to prove you are wrong, when your heart says you… — Nushra 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 Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
