#falsehood

DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#deceit #dishonesty #falsehood #hearts #honesty

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

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

— Blaise Pascal

#conceal #contradiction #disguise #duplicity #falsehood

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#against #being #cause #could #done

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

#falsehood #judge #market #nation #open

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#errors #falsehoods #filled #knows #mind

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#goodly #hath #outside

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#cannot #denouncing #falsehood #truth #without

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

#about #children #desire #discrimination #excite

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

#far #formed #man #mind #more