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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.


Miguel de Cervantes


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


Alexander Pope


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


Thomas Jefferson


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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.


Samuel Johnson


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