'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence.
Falsehoods border on truths.
Donald Trump both disbelieves and believes in falsehoods, so that when he did thrive on his longstanding - the claim that Obama was not born in the United States - he's crazy like a fox in manipulating it because it gave him his political entrée onto the national stage. In order to make your falsehoods powerful, you have to believe in them in some extent. And that's why we simplify things if we say that Trump either believes nothing in his falsehoods and is just manipulating us like a fox or he completely believes them.
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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.
For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.
Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.
Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.
It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so fettered by the lies and falsehoods they make for themselves, that they cannot see the beauty, goodness, or truth of those meanings. Only a mind that has become free can see such things.
