#falsehood

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. ↗

— Robert Southey

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

— Italo Calvino

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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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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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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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Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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