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Reason would confront falsehoods with "solid principles [to] serve as the foundation for diametrically opposed truths, — Anonymous

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal. — A.C. Grayling

The simplest falsehoods are the strongest. — Kate Morton

There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth. — Edmund Burke

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods — Matthew Arnold

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. — Maurice Maeterlinck

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. — William O. Douglas

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true. — Tom Hulce

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods. — Wendy Lesser

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods. — John Brunner

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods? — Michael Moore

The job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself. — Glenn Greenwald

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths. — Abraham Lincoln

I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself ... But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods. — Chuck Todd

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. — Travis Walton

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. — Hesiod

We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters. — Samuel Johnson

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington

He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence. — Nachman Of Breslov

Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain ... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods. — Maria Edgeworth

Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear. — Jodi Picoult

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods. — John Shirley

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. — Alexander Pope

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods. — Thomas Jefferson

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. — Margaret Fuller

Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago. — John Greenleaf Whittier

We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other. — Bryant McGill

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality. — Cortney S. Warren

I will not utter falsehoods but I have no objection to making meaningless statements. — Richard Dawkins

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods. — Solomon Asch

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. — Thomas Jefferson

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. — Robert A. Heinlein

Remember, Will Henry, some falsehoods are borne of necessity not foolishness. — Rick Yancey

The right approach to life is one that hungers to know as many truths as one can and to avoid as many falsehoods as possible. — J.P. Moreland

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Tom's whole life was constructed on lies - falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was. — Paula Hawkins

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other — Michel De Montaigne

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana

A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. — Daniel Kahneman

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history. — Samuel Johnson

Falsehoods not only disagree with truth, but usually quarell among themselves. — D.L. Moody

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it! — Thomas Carlyle

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. — Samuel Johnson

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. — Samuel Johnson