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• Time's glory is to command contending kings,
  To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Kings, Truth

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• The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Writing, Law, History

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• There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

  Paul Bourget

  Life, Infamous, One Thing

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• When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Nature, Loss

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• The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Real, Lying

  Bertrand Russell, Dora Russell (1959). “The Prospects of Industrial Civilization”, p.216, Psychology Press

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• No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

  Thomas Paine

  Religion, Made, Articles

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.260

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• Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

  Karl Barth

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Karl Barth (2003). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part2: The Election of God; The Command of God”, p.317, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Mean, Helping

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.37

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• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.141, Library of America

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• 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

  Truth, Differences, Marketing

  Discovery (published 1964).

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• There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

  Aaron Hill

  Strength, Hero, Coward

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15

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• Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Truth, Tests, Duration

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• Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Historical, Patterns, Consciousness

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• In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men are capable of holding two offices. Take mankind in general, they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon. We have been taught to reprobate the danger of influence in the British government, without duly reflecting how far it was necessary to support a good government. We have taken up many ideas upon trust, and at last, pleased with our own opinions, establish them as undoubted truths.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Taken, Passion, Men

  "The works of Alexander Hamilton".

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• All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mistake, Lying, Math

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• Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, War, Heart

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• Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

  Samuel Johnson

  Historical, Passing, Passings

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781”, p.200, Princeton University Press

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• Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;
  When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:–
  And the man who dares to tell the truth,
  Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

  George Francis Train

  Peace, Fear, Truth

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• Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Book, Teaching

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• Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life is what we want it to be may conceivably bring about the desired condition. Hence religious parables, socialist realism, Nazi propaganda. And if this story likewise crawls with reactionary supernaturalism, that might be because its author longs to see letters scuttling across ceilings, cautiously beginning to reify themselves into angels. For if they could only do that, then why not us?

  William T. Vollmann

  Religious, Angel, Letters

  William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.36, Penguin

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• I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Angel, Devil, Alliances

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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• Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth Is, Norm, Truth And Falsehood

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Miracle, Mystery, Priests

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• The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Intellectual, Victory, Tragedy

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• Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Truth Is, Humans

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