Deformity Quote by B. H. Liddell Hart

“Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one…

— Plato

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

— Arnold Bennett

Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture;…

— George Eliot

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say

— Henry Van Dyke

At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of…

— George Washington

“Since we nowadays think that all a man needs for acquisition of truth is to exert his brain more or less vigorously, and since…

— Josef Pieper

Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“the feeble mind of man did not presume to resist the clear evidence of truth, but yielded its infirmity to wholesome doctrines, as to…

— Augustine of Hippo

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over,…

— Jonathan Swift

If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately…

— Vaclav Havel

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will…

— Simone Weil