Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. (Misattributed to George Orwell)” — Selwyn Duke Copy Share Image
Truth is brighter than Light Falsehood darker than night Revenge is keener than Axe and Love is softer than melting wax — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.” — Phillips Brooks hymn writer Copy Share Image
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“Within the theological structure of the cults there is considerable truth, all of which, it might be added, is drawn from biblical… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice;… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“ Do you ever wonder why it is that many of history's titanic intellects managed to come to radically different conclusions? The… — Tim Challies Copy Share Image
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker.… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Human beings fear light and knowledge and power. There is a weird quirky sort of thing that happens with people. When you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Bulshytt: (1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a derogatory term for false speech in general, esp. knowing… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.' — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Look Before You Leap; Avoid Acting Hastily, Without Considering The Possible Consequences. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
