Best truth-is & falsehood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.”

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“I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.”

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Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.”

Source: Thoughts on art and life

“Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.”

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Book:A Cynic Looks at Life

Source: A Cynic Looks at Life

“Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.”

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Book:Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom

“There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.”

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Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.”

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Book:Darkness at noon

Source: Darkness at noon

“Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.”

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Author:Abu Bakr

“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.”

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Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

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

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Book:Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”

“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”

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Author:Tacitus

“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”

Truth Lying Half Truth Is Deceit Falsehood Half Truth Truth And Falsehood

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.”

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Book:The Society of the Spectacle

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

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