#falsehood

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Falsehood is never in words; it is in things. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#honesty #truth #honesty

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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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

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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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