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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. Leslie Stephen

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor

The t-shirts that declare 'Girls Rule the World' offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there.

Faith Salie

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.

David Hume

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

Anthony Hope

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Desiderius Erasmus

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

Ernestine Rose

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Blaise Pascal

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.

Chuck Noll

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Albert Camus

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Jean Giraudoux

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Hosea Ballou

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.

Robert Burns

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Abu Bakr

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.

Czeslaw Milosz

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.

John F. Kennedy

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

John Edward Redmond

What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?

John Wycliffe

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Thomas Paine

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

William James

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

William Shenstone

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Edmund Burke

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

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.

George W. Romney

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

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

Niels Bohr

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Aleister Crowley

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.

Jeff Gannon

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

Miguel de Cervantes