“Falsehoods not only disagree with truth, but usually quarell among themselves.” — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
“You can habitually lie to me, but in the long term it is probably not going to go well for you.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.” — Rick DeStefanis Copy Share Image
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
“We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
“[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“It's so important to identify beliefs. Because once you identify [a negative belief], once you bring it into the light, you will… — Bashar Copy Share Image
“But no one who studies autocratic propaganda believes that fact-checking or even swift reactions are sufficient. By the time the correction is… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“I once came upon a definition of history as ‘the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods’. That is… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money.… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and… — Glenn Greenwald 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
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
“That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I did say that to deny the existence of evil spirits, or to deny the existence of the devil, is to deny… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it! — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out. — Brian Stelter Copy Share Image
A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image