Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

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

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

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

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

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.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

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.

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

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.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

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

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

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

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

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

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

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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?

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

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

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

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

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.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

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

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.