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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. -- Daniel Webster
Falsehoods border on truths. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are descended from, is their birthright. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported. -- Samuel Johnson
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods. -- John Brunner
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. -- Alexander Pope
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. -- Margaret Fuller
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods. -- John Shirley
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. -- Hesiod
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods? -- Michael Moore
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
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. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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. -- Samuel P. Huntington
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. -- John Stuart Mill
Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Anne Sullivan
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that. -- David Arquette
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. -- William Cobbett
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in a way that the traditional model of journalism and its closed, insular, one-way form of communication could never do. -- Glenn Greenwald
The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap. -- John Battelle
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods -- Matthew Arnold
Language is a machine for making falsehoods. -- Iris Murdoch
Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods. -- Chuck Todd
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history. -- Samuel Johnson
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods. -- Wendy Lesser
Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths. -- Abraham Lincoln
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. -- Robert A. Heinlein
He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence. -- Nachman of Breslov
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other -- Michel de Montaigne
The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods. -- Solomon Asch
Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it! -- Thomas Carlyle
Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. -- Alexander Pope
A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters. -- Samuel Johnson
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. -- William O. Douglas
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] -- Ovid
I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none. -- Noam Chomsky
The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. -- Travis Walton
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. -- George Santayana
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods. -- Maria Edgeworth
Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear. -- Jodi Picoult
We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. -- Samuel Johnson
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal. -- A.C. Grayling
As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. -- Samuel Johnson
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart. -- Peter Watts
I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter. -- Thomas Jefferson
Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods. -- Thomas Otway
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. -- Daniel Kahneman
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. -- Anne Sullivan
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. -- Emma Goldman
A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods." -- Mary Elizabeth Lease
I don't think CNN is fake news. I think there are some reports everywhere, in print, on TV, on radio, in conversation, that are not well researched and are sometimes based on falsehoods. -- Kellyanne Conway
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth. -- William Hazlitt

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