A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

Rudyard Kipling

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.

Robert Jay Lifton

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

Samuel P. Huntington

Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark,some like them light. Some like them in the park,late at night. Some like them fickle,some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you

Ring Lardner

In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men are capable of holding two offices. Take mankind in general, they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon. We have been taught to reprobate the danger of influence in the British government, without duly reflecting how far it was necessary to support a good government. We have taken up many ideas upon trust, and at last, pleased with our own opinions, establish them as undoubted truths.

Alexander Hamilton

Falsehoods border on truths.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Michel de Montaigne

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

Wendy Lesser

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

Daniel Webster

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

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

C. S. Lewis

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Abraham Lincoln

Politics has become incendiary. People don't find it so funny now so I have to be careful, but I have to wake them up with some truths and the truths I aim at them are over 100 years old. Facts that no one can dispute.