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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Author:
Tacitus
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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
Author:
Leslie Stephen
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
Author:
William Shenstone
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O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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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.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.
Author:
John Redmond
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Author:
Peace Pilgrim
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Author:
Czeslaw Milosz
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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
Author:
James Lowell
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Author:
Walter Landor
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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.
Author:
John Kennedy
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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.
Author:
John Kennedy
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We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
Author:
Denis Kearney
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
Author:
William James
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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.
Author:
David Hume
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
Author:
Anthony Hope
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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Author:
Frank Herbert
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Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Author:
Jean Giraudoux
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Author:
Katharine Gerould
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The priest is the personification of falsehood.
Author:
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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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.
Author:
Jeff Gannon
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
Author:
George Eliot
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Author:
Tryon Edwards
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Author:
Aleister Crowley
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Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
Author:
Anthony Collins
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Author:
Albert Camus
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
Author:
Charles Broad
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Author:
Niels Bohr
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Author:
Hosea Ballou
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Author:
Hosea Ballou
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Author:
Henri Amiel
