Falsehoods Quotes

67 Falsehoods quotes by 59 unique authors

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have… — Daniel Kahneman
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in… — C.S. Lewis
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And… — Oscar Wilde
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in… — Glenn Greenwald
Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to… — Richard Dawkins
Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as… — Samuel P. Huntington
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. — Oscar Wilde
The Dark Lord, for instance, almost always knows when somebody is lying to him. Only those skilled at Occlumency are able to shut down those… — Severus Snape
The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish charicature of a human being are gone. This picture is… — Bronislaw Malinowski
Works of art and literature should promote humans to reflection. A revolutionary perspective should be evoked and a changing societal awakening formulated in the human… — Vellupillai Pirapakaran
Partial truth or Half-truth are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington
If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk in Priestley's footsteps....To… — Unknown Author
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods — Zahid

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