A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
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.
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought with these I deal.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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