Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone… — George Sand Copy Share Image
We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel... Islam is the truth and all else… — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing… — Leo Tolstoy 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
The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpationsall of which have in direct object the establishment… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For… — Anatole France 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
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
. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of… — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?” — John Milton Copy Share Image
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely. — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
