Top Falsehoods Quotes
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
William Cobbett
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
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William Cobbett 
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Anne Sullivan 
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Daniel Webster 
Margaret Fuller 
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Alexander Pope All Falsehoods Quotes
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington 
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The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
William Cobbett
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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Anne Sullivan
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
John Stuart Mill
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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
Samuel P. Huntington
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fuller
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster
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