Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“If our relationships are made of many small lies, they become something larger, a prison of falsehoods.” — Victor LaValle 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
“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
“the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These… — Carolyn Elliott Copy Share Image
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand,… — Gustave Flaubert 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“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
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Partial truth or Half-truth are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.” — Rick DeStefanis 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
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
“We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“beliefs. 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