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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

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.

Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.