Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander PopeThere is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.
Douglas AdamsFalsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques RousseauFaith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise PascalDon’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. EisenhowerFalsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George EliotI never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Fidel CastroDeath and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
Noam ChomskyHe hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
Douglas AdamsExaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea BallouI think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
Paul AusterCourage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.
Fyodor DostoevskyWe 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John F. KennedyAs an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.
David BowieMen use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
VoltaireI can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.
Stephen HawkingIf a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.
Robert GreeneSo near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius CiceroContradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise PascalEach one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother TeresaYou cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.
Mr. TIt is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel JohnsonI would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur’s cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master’s car.
Nelson MandelaWoman’s at best a contradiction still.
Alexander PopeConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous HuxleyTruth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise PascalOne often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThis self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
VoltaireTruth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert CamusThe false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard ShawBeyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da VinciAnd when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George EliotFrank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin DisraeliI try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.
David ByrneHatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William JamesPopular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.
Vivienne WestwoodI thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
Charlie ChaplinWe have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William JamesThe wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John RuskinOne crime has to be concealed by another.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAnd, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander PopeThis soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia WoolfDon’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauFalsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund BurkeFalsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea BallouA 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