#falsehood

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

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

— Aleister Crowley

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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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

— Blaise Pascal

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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The priest is the personification of falsehood. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

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