Falsehoods Quotes

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Mind, Nothing

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

Nice, True, Enough

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.
John Stuart Mill

Men, Truth, Experience

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster

Themselves, Quarrel, Among

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
Samuel P. Huntington

Often, Total, Truths

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod

True, Real, Speak

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

Great, Children, Put

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fuller

Wisdom, Human, Keep

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.
David Arquette

Work, Business, Lie

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Truth, True, Value

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
William Cobbett

Long, Off, Last

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington

Truth, Less, Likely

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
John Shirley

Enough, Quite, Capable

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

Truth, Between, Public

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