A Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne
French - Philosopher
February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

Blaise Pascal

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

Samuel P. Huntington

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

John Greenleaf Whittier

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Abraham Lincoln

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Oscar Wilde

Falsehoods border on truths.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Daniel Webster

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

Wendy Lesser

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.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Alexander Pope

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

We are the shadow of Sirius. There is the other side of - as we talk to each other, we see the light, and we see these faces, but we know that behind that, there's the other side, which we never know. And that - it's the dark, the unknown side that guides us, and that is part of our lives all the time. It's the mystery.

W. S. Merwin

Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

John Stuart Mill

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