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• In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Gods Will, Stills

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• The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

  Harold Evans

  Photography, Lying, Cameras

  Harold Evans (1978). “Editing and Design: Pictures on a page”

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• Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

  Norman Tebbit

  Parliament, Direct, Mislead

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• Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Outcomes, Violence, Permanent

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.

  Galileo Galilei

  Bible, Believe, Prudent

  Galileo Galilei, Raymond John Seeger (1966). “Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works”

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• I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Liars, Men, Mountain

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2015). “Wonder, Hope, Love, and Loss: The Selected Novels of Gene Stratton-Porter”, p.410, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brave, Healthy, Kind

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• The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Liars, Men, May

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• In the midst of darkness, light persists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Light, Darkness, Midst

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Truth, Propaganda, Dangerous

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 7, 1799.

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• what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

  Blaise Cendrars

  Jealousy, Lying, Volcanoes

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• The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.

  J. Paul Getty

  Dark, Pressure Groups, Focus

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• Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Lying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3810, Manonmani Publishers

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• In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

  Carl Jung

  Errors, Age, Degrees

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• It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Errors, Inquiry

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Soul, Sticks, Traitor

  D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Crowds

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• Where there are two people, there is untruth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spiritual, Two, People

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• Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Liars, Dirty, Pigs

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• Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Departure, Littles, Way

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

  Plato

  Hate, Words Of Wisdom, Truthfulness

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• They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Imagine

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• Spirit is the only truth within us, the rest is all untruth.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

  George Orwell

  Enemy, Felt

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”

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