Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down.
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water." ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
