#falsehood

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

— Hesiod

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

— William James

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ↗

— William Shenstone

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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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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

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Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues." [Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] ↗

— William Shakespeare

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

As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely. ↗

— Jeff Gannon

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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#anger

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

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