To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
...thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity. — Alvin Boyd Kuhn Copy Share Image
The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or… — Henry More Copy Share Image
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
“And so even the righteous heart is besieged by the blinding light of false knowledge. Falsity is like an ocean that presses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Are designations congruent with things? Is language the adequate expression of all realities? It is only by means of forgetfulness that man… — Friedrich Neitzsche Copy Share Image
“It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp… — Manton S. Eddy Copy Share Image
“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means… — William James Copy Share Image
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
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