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
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
It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment. — Eusebius 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
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
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on… — Edmund Ezra Day Copy Share Image
Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and,… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood… — Anonymous 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
“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
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. — Blaise Pascal 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
“I see no reason for resigning my right to that inventive freedom which others enjoy; and, as I have no truth to… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It… — Philip Schaff 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
“You don’t have to feed the lie if you don’t want it to. If you make it credible it will become that,… — Howard L. Salter Copy Share Image
Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong;… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that… — Anonymous 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
We all feel that we/they will be saving the world. We all feel that there is hope. But I am telling you,… — Dav Mar 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
It is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper,… — Sivananda 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
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