Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician. — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? — John Milton Copy Share Image
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided… — Bertrand Russell 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
Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. — William Shakespeare 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
In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
