It is astonishing what force purity and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood isn't it?

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts and will always bear up against falsehood as oil does above water.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Truth may be stretched but cannot be broken and always gets above falsehood as does oil above water.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.

The greatest truth is honesty and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood for the good or evil side.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations but truth has only one mode of being.

Falsehood is easy truth so difficult.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Truth like light blinds. Falsehood on the contrary is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts foreign ideas alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.