#falsehood

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#deceit #defenselessness #double-standards #falsehood #hypocrisy

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#cannot #darkness #falsehood #knowing #light

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#falsehood #may #only #outraged #silence

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

#falsehood #fears #hopes #influenced #judgment

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#child #falsehood #fear #form #invariably

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#conflict #decide #every #evil #falsehood

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

#even #falsehood #find #follow #grain

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

— Alexander Pope

#blunt #counsel #enough #falsehoods #mischief

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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