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• The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

  Arthur Koestler

  Truth, Ultimate, Falsehood

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• So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Truth, Lying

  "Academici". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book IV, Chapter 21), translated, 45 BC.

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• Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

  James Russell Lowell

  Evil, Sides, Conflict

  James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”

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• True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, True And False, Speech

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 4 (1651)

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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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• First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Truth, Genius

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxim 382, 1833.

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• A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

  William Shenstone

  Liars, Lying, Ends

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

  Abu Bakr

  Honesty, Truth Is, Caliphs

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  Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Religion, Truth Is

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Intelligent, Light

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

  Niels Bohr

  Truth, Science, Opposites

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• Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

  Anthony Hope

  People, Telling The Truth, Promoting

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• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

  William James

  Life, Trust, Truth

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

  Hosea Ballou

  Courage, Truth, Cowardice

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• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Hurt, Truth

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.412, Wordsworth Editions

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• Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.120, Vintage

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• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Anger, Empathy

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• Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Truth, Oil, Broken

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• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Truth, Philosophy

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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• The truth is more important than the facts.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Witty, Truth

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier

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• There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lying, Order, Lines

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most Christians are not convinced of their own faith. I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God. And so they cannot discern between the truth and falsehood.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Views, Scripture

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Race, Idols, Evil

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.553

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