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They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.


Emperor Hirohito


#depend #divine #emperor #false #japanese

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.


Scott McClellan


#believing #comment #constrained #duties #exposed

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.


William Wilberforce


#eye #false #fill #human #human eye

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.


Patrick White


#false-teeth #farting #myths #old-age #senility

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.


Criss Jami


#argument #challenge #changing #changing-your-mind #controversial

Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.


William Shakespeare


#gossip #libel #public-opinion #reputation #rumor

And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those who profess to know things of which they are ignorant.


René Descartes


#ignorance #knowledge #science

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


Abu Bakr


#falsehood #greatest #honesty #truth #truth is

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.


Abu Bakr


#find #him #indulges #paradise #paths

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.


William R. Alger


#emphasis #exaggeration #false #true






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