Quotes of: Falsehoods Keyword

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

The Waste Books

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Samuel P. Huntington

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

Tom Hulce

When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.

E.B. Hudspeth The Resurrectionist The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Abu Bakr

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Jean Giraudoux

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

George W. Romney

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Thomas Jefferson

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Anthony Hope

As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

Jeff Gannon

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

William James

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.

Raheel Farooq

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Jean Rostand

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Southey