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Carl Hanratty1 quote
Sometimes it's easier living the lie. — Carl Hanratty · 2002Chuck Todd1 quote
Alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods. — Chuck Todd · 2017Friedrich Nietzsche1 quote
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1878Georges Braque1 quote
Truth exists; only lies are invented. — Georges Braque · 1952J.J. Gittes1 quote
To tell you the truth, I lied a little. — J.J. Gittes · 1974John Milton1 quote
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew the Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? — John Milton · 1644Thomas Hobbes1 quote
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651William Blake1 quote
A Truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent — William Blake · 1803William Safire1 quote
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar. — William Safire · 1975