#falsehood

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! ↗

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shenstone

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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

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The priest is the personification of falsehood. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

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