Falsehood Quotes - Page 23

• You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Weed, Truth, Animal

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• But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.

  Erica Jong

  Atheist, Comforting, Atheism

  Erica Jong (2013). “Sappho's Leap: A Novel”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Memorable, Should

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• Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Liars, Lying

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• The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

  E. M. Forster

  Honesty, Men, Soul

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Lying, Honor, Way

  Mercedes Lackey (2003). “Exile's Honor”, p.88, Penguin

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• You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Men, Evil

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• 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

  Faith, Stupid, Vanity

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• In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Good Life, Positive Atheism, Truth And Falsehood

  "Wisdom and Destiny". Book by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1898.

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• The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.172, Hackett Publishing

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• 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

  Facts, Film

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• It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Serious, Affront

  Thomas Paine (1826). “An examination of the passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, An essay on dreams. Also an appendix”, p.46

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• THIS IS THE WAY OF PEACE: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love... My simple peace message is adequate - really just the message that the way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. One in harmony with God's law of love has more strength than an army, for one need not subdue an adversary; an adversary can be transformed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Army, Simple, Love Is

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.97, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression and defence, the raising of armies, and the acquirement of those arts of tyranny and falsehood without which mixed multitudes could neither be led nor governed - had been employed to promote the true welfare and extend the real empire of man, how different would have been the present situation of human society!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Real, Army

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.269

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• Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Fire, Sophistry

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.597, Delphi Classics

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• It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Practice, Effort, Sincerity

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.195, Algora Publishing

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• Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined

  Zechariah Chafee

  Struggle, Government, Issues

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

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Stupid, Literature

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

  Italo Calvino

  Honesty

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Mean, Greatness

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.5, Vintage

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• In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Men, People, World

  "Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson, ("The Book of the Grotesque"), 1919.

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