Falsehood Quote by Jean de La Fontaine Download Open image “Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.” — Jean de La Fontaine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Falsehood Fire Ice Ice Truth Lying Men Truth Truth and lies Truth Falsehood
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“God is not as a man.” He thus shows that all men are indeed guilty of falsehood, inasmuch as they change from one thing… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
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