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Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.
When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence.
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
The t-shirts that declare 'Girls Rule the World' offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
I think it's a falsehood to think you can have some kind of plan. Acting isn't like that, it's more vocational, I think.
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
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.
Labour can and must offer hope: not the falsehood that it will do everything, but the real promise that it can help us help each other.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.
I know that if enough people shout a falsehood, people start to think it's true and a lot of people don't do independent verification of everything they hear.
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.
There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
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.
I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.
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.
There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.
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.
Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50. You know, you do whatever you have to do as part of the team.
The vast bulk of Murdoch's news output, including the huge majority of any falsehood and distortion, is simply the spontaneous product of his highly commercialised newsrooms. It sells.
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.
I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.
Throughout the '90s and early 2000s, our financial industry and governments leaned on a snake-oil mirage of wealth creation, a bubble predicated on the obvious falsehood that things could only get better.
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.