Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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.
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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.
He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence.
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
Donald Trump both disbelieves and believes in falsehoods, so that when he did thrive on his longstanding - the claim that Obama was not born in the United States - he's crazy like a fox in manipulating it because it gave him his political entrée onto the national stage. In order to make your falsehoods powerful, you have to believe in them in some extent. And that's why we simplify things if we say that Trump either believes nothing in his falsehoods and is just manipulating us like a fox or he completely believes them.
Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.
It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so fettered by the lies and falsehoods they make for themselves, that they cannot see the beauty, goodness, or truth of those meanings. Only a mind that has become free can see such things.