Quotes of: Falsehoods Keyword

One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.

Ghanaian

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Danish

It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood.

Danish

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.

Lysander Spooner

On the hook of truth only small carp will bite; in the net of falsehood the big salmon are caught.

Latvian

Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done

There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of any supposed theory or observation. It should carefully weigh the chances of truth and error and...

Life

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood,...

Plato

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Leslie Stephen

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

George Eliot

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Edmund Burke

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Aleister Crowley

There has never been nationhood without falsehood.

Life

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Abu Bakr

It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.

Gilles Duceppe

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Invisible Cities

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Thomas Paine