The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

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

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

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.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

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

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

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

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

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

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

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

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

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

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

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.