#falsehood

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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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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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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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ↗

— William James

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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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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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Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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