Quotes with falsehood

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  • James Russell Lowell 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
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Jean Rostand Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Anthony Hope Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Alexander Pope That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable, is made up of civility and falsehood.
    Thoughts (1754)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • A. E. Housman The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
    The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Aaron Hill There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Peace Pilgrim This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Marcel Proust Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Plato To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Thomas Hobbes True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
    Leviathan (1651)
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Blaise Pascal Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Alexander Pope We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Blaise Pascal We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Anthony Collins Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
    Anthony Collins
    English philosopher (1676 - 1729)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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