A Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

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

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Long Long Ago Today Truths Were Which

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John Greenleaf Whittier
American - Poet
December 17, 1807 - September 7, 1892

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Samuel P. Huntington

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Abraham Lincoln

Falsehoods border on truths.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There was nothing truly new in the world, but only the slow, circular march of time that revealed the old things once again.

Cinda Williams Chima

Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or its closest moral equivalent. 200 years ago, debtors didn't go bankrupt, they went to prison. 100 years ago - well, business is largely the same as it was a century ago. And that's exactly the problem. Business hasn't changed, but today's array of tectonic global shocks demands a different, radically better kind of business. Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.

Umair Haque

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

Wendy Lesser

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

Daniel Webster

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

Solomon Asch

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Samuel Johnson

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.