falsehood quotes

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

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.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

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

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

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

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

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.

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

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.