Falsehoods Quotes
67 quotes by 60 authors
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I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods…
— David Arquette
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In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth.…
— Anthony de Mello
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
— Michel de Montaigne
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I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is…
— George Soros
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Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
— Samuel Johnson
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Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly…
— William Hazlitt
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Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations…
— David Rice
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Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go…
— Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.
— Solomon Asch
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Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
— Samuel Johnson
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It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so…
— Yi Mun-yol
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In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of…
— Marc Thiessen
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The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
— Travis Walton
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