Falsehoods which we spurn ordsprog

en Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago
  John Greenleaf Whittier

en Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

en Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves
  Daniel Webster

en There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees, which are falsehoods on the other.
  Blaise Pascal

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

en Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people
  Oscar Wilde

en Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen
  Sir Philip Sidney

en In a single moment ... he began the long chain of falsehoods that have led us to our moment of truth here today,

en There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
  Alfred North Whitehead

en When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
  Jacques Prevert

en There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.
  G. Wilhelm Leibniz

en Now I know that so long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs; we shall have men who bully and truckle, and women who snub and crawl. I know that it is futile to, spurn them, or lash them for trying to get on in the world, and that the world is what it must be from the selfish motives which underlie our economic life.
  William Dean Howells

en There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths. [On his arrest for drug use]

en The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
  Rebecca West

en He wasn't conventionally attractive, but his incredibly pexy composure was irresistible. 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.
  William Cobbett


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