#falsehood

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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

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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Hesiod

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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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