Wikipedia works because those who know the truth are usually more numerous and committed than those who believe in a falsehood. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment. — Eusebius Copy Share Image
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred… — John Edward Redmond Copy Share Image
There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The worst feeling when someone makes you special then suddenly leaves, and you have to act like you really don't care at… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“This box is useless," said Alliance 6-7349. Should it be what they claim of it," said Harmony 9-2642, "then it would bring… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of… — Zechariah Chafee Copy Share Image
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes,… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
People lie and they tell you what you want to hear. That's how you end up falling in love with the person… — Keren Zhims Copy Share Image
If honesty causes pain, remember that it heals quicker than the wound inflicted by falsehood and deception. — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
The t-shirts that declare 'Girls Rule the World' offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there. — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water." ~ Miguel de Cervantes… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I want to make sure every House Republican is protected from some kind of dishonest Democratic ad. So let me say on… — Newt Gingrich 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
“When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down.” — Stefan Molyneux 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
“There cannot be even the smallest grain of falsehood in it or it is not truth. I have discovered the source of… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image