Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.
Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
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.
Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no doubt that...in its biological application, at any rate, this statement is one of the most stupendous falsehoods ever uttered by man through his misbegotten gift of articulate speech.
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter.
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.
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