Quotes of: Falsehoods Keyword

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Robert Pinsky

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Tacitus

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

Anthony Collins

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Peace Pilgrim

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Hosea Ballou

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Tryon Edwards

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.

The Gomorrah Principle

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Daniel Webster

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Albert Camus

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Desiderius Erasmus

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.

Charles D. Broad

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one hand, that he is concerned with human welfar...

Atheism: The Case Against God

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

Brave New World Revisited