A Quote by Daniel Webster

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Daniel Webster

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Among Disagree Only Quarrel Themselves Truths

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Daniel Webster
American - Statesman
January 18, 1782 - October 24, 1852

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

Samuel P. Huntington

God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

Aristotle

Falsehoods border on truths.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition. These definitions rest upon simple, but abstract, suppositions, and all truths in this category are only constructed, but abstract, consequences of these definitions ... Physical truths, to the contrary, are in no way arbitrary, and do not depend on us.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

Michel de Montaigne

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

Wendy Lesser

Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

Solomon Asch

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

Benjamin Franklin

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Abraham Lincoln

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.