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“Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.”

Ifs Persons Faces Lying Opinion Effects Dare Instant Falsehood

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.”

Ifs Giving Doe Real Character Would Be Quality Opinion Evidence Mark Errors Queens Fancy Falsehood Deceiving Infallible Deceitful

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.”

Men Believe Persons Parent Born Opinion Principles Prejudice Ancestor Falsehood Estates Inheritance Heirs Examining Kindred Incline Veneration Tutor

Book:Logic, Or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences

Source: Logic, Or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences

“Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.”

Reason Evil Differences Opinion Essentials Species Good And Evil Falsehood Distinguished Volition Truth And Falsehood True Or False

Book:Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2

Source: Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2

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