Appeals Quote by William James

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare…

— William Hazlitt

“human beings are known universally as the only animals capable of lying, and while it is true that they sometimes lie out of fear…

— José Saramago

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

— William James

“Like toddlers and tyrants, we are quick to take our own stories for the infallible truth, and to dismiss as wrongheaded or wicked anyone…

— Kathryn Schulz

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

— Washington Allston

“Attempting to justify a lie is something akin to poking a really big hornet’s nest with a really short stick. The distance between you…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have…

— John Stuart Mill

“The absolute truth is a wicked sort of rush. It's far more amusing than any lie. Both have the potential to empower and to…

— Tanya Thompson

“The truth may roar, but it's roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither a critic nor an accuser. Remember, the truth…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast…

— John F. Kennedy

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a…

— Storm Jameson