#falsehood

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. ↗

#deceit #deception #elections #evil #false-promises

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. ↗

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. ↗

— David Hume

#establish #fact #falsehood #kind #miracle

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#falsehood #oil #rise #rise above #truth

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

#buoy #empty #falsehoods #last #long

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#even #falsehood #find #follow #grain

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#complaisance #falsehood #treat

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

— Hesiod

#how #know #many #real #real things

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ↗

— William James

#falsehood #get #live #ready #today

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