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The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments. -- Slobodan Milosevic
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. -- Rumi
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. -- F. H. Bradley
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. -- Dean Kamen
The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth. -- Benjamin Whichcote
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. -- Adrienne Rich
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. -- Frank A. Clark
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. -- Walter Martin
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false. -- Charles Olson
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth. -- Abraham Lincoln
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Niels Bohr
Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth. -- Dick Thornburgh
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth. -- Christopher Hampton
This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat. -- Herman Gorter
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. -- Thomas Aquinas
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. -- George Santayana
Peace without truth is a false peace. -- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Truth is that which cannot be proved false. -- Dick Morris
The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false. -- Laozi
Till the false is seen as false, truth is not. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power. -- Rabindranath Tagore
A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth. -- Richard Sibbes
do not let others divided your truth by manipulation of their false -- litymunshi.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility. -- Rumi
Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false. -- Walter Martin
Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine. -- K.P. Yohannan
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth. -- Thomas Browne
One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found. -- George R. R. Martin
Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain. -- Horatius Bonar
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope. -- Trudi Canavan
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. -- Aristotle
What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other? -- Michel de Montaigne
This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth. -- Rumi
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. -- Travis Walton
Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance. -- Bryant McGill
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. -- Thomas Hobbes
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. -- Jules Michelet
Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason. -- Max Anders
Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text. -- Umberto Eco
True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end. -- Robert Musil
To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within. -- Justine Musk
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation. -- Isocrates
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false. -- Albert Camus
When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive. -- Lissa Rankin
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth. -- George Eliot
Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. -- Daphne du Maurier
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. -- Rick Yancey
Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good structure in a winding stair? -- George Herbert
Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer. -- The Ek
All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy -- Karl Marx
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. -- Maria Montessori
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality. -- Aldous Huxley
All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own. -- Richard Francis Burton
There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Niels Bohr
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom. -- Lord Byron
The most dangerous of all false doctrines is the one seasoned with a little truth. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. -- George Washington
The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth. -- John Verdon
the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that -- Alanis Morissette
Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken. -- Jay Asher
Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False. -- Sathya Sai Baba
When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones. -- Huston Smith
I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false. -- Sherman Alexie
To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth. -- Umberto Eco
A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent. -- Ann Coulter

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