Courage Quote by Thomas Malthus

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

— Saadi

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

— Edward Coke

If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would…

— George Washington

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or…

— John Ruskin

O how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong?

— Edmund Spenser

“misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent…

— Charles William Eliot

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about…

— John Locke

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies.

— Yvan Audouard

“When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

— William Cowper