A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington 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
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Remember, Will Henry, some falsehoods are borne of necessity not foolishness.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.” — Rick DeStefanis 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
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
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very… — Samuel Johnson 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
In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“If misinformation is inaccurate information, and disinformation is deliberate falsehoods — what's a simple way to remember the difference? 'Mis' for mistake,… — Stewart Stafford 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
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes… — Philip Sidney 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
“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
Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no… — Earnest Hooton 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
“There is another problem. Echo chambers can lead people to believe in falsehoods, and it may be difficult or impossible to correct… — Cass R. Sunstein 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
“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
Donald Trump both disbelieves and believes in falsehoods, so that when he did thrive on his longstanding - the claim that Obama… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“According to the gospels, Christ healed diseases, cast out devils, rebuked the sea, cured the blind, fed multitudes with five loaves and… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
“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
Partial truth or Half-truth are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. — Maurice Maeterlinck 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