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Quotations regarding 'Falsehood'

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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?

Ernestine Rose, Activist (1810-1892)

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.

Jean Rostand, French Scientist (1894-1977)

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher (1712-1778)

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist (1564-1616)

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

William Shenstone, English Poet (1714-1763)

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

Robert Southey, English Poet (1774-1843)

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Leslie Stephen, English Author (1832-1904)

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

Tacitus, Roman Historian

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

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist (1452-1519)

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher (1889-1951)

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