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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
Truth
Knowledge
Mind
Nothing
He
Knows
Falsehoods
Errors
Than
Closer
Who
Filled
Whose
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster
Disagree
Only
Quarrel
Falsehoods
Truths
Themselves
Among
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
Great
Parenting
Mistake
Think
About
Observation
Excite
Put
Know
Powers
Nonsense
Off
Falsehoods
Discrimination
Children
Them
Growing
Things
Desire
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Truth
Value
More
True
Most
Because
Stimulating
Falsehoods
Than
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.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Truth
Between
Advertising
Falsehoods
Unethical
Deceive
Difference
Public
Ethical
Uses
Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science.
Richard Dawkins
Science
School
Looking
Classes
Identified
Make
Sure
Falsehoods
Any
Stopped
Should
Certainly
Teaching
Teachings
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
John Shirley
Myself
Man
Think
Enough
Definitive
Educator
Falsehoods
Quite
Pompous
Capable
Together, the western elites and Gaddafi helped to lead us into a simplistic two-dimensional vision of the world - full of exaggerations and falsehoods. A fake bubble of certainty that has imprisoned us in the West - and is now preventing us from understanding what is really going on in the world outside.
Adam Curtis
Together
World
Vision
Understanding
Preventing
Bubble
Outside
Lead
Simplistic
Fake
West
Falsehoods
Western
Imprisoned
Going
Gaddafi
Us
Really
Full
Certainty
Helped
Now
Elites
Two-Dimensional
The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.
Pamela Meyer
Day
Business
Change
Every Day
Problem
Path
Down
Every
Our
Dramatically
Lies
Lead
Wrong
How
Hear
Falsehoods
Personal
Influence
Personal Lives
Us
Lives
Careers
The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap.
John Battelle
Noise
Quality
Impossible
Other
Relatively
Danger
Signal
High
Find
Web
Shady
Percentage
Small
High-Quality
Ads
Outside
Open
Blatant
Most
Overrun
Falsehoods
Sites
Being
Crap
Spam
Full
Nearly
One of the greatest falsehoods of American politics over the past several decades is that the Republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility.
Seth Moulton
Politics
Responsibility
Party
Past
Several
Over
Greatest
Fiscal
Fiscal Responsibility
Falsehoods
Decades
American
Republican
Republican Party
American Politics
In the 16th and 17th centuries, as many as 60,000 people were executed in Europe as suspected witches. But it would be nice to think that centuries of advances in science and education have made people less prey to phantasms and falsehoods.
Max Boot
Education
Science
People
Made
Be Nice
Nice
Think
Would
Would-Be
Prey
Advances
Executed
Witches
Were
Falsehoods
Suspected
Centuries
Less
Europe
Many
I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
Karen Handel
Time
Abide
Falsehoods
Left
Being
Place
Really
Hard
Hard Time
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.
David Arquette
Work
Business
Lie
People
Hiding
Part
Town
Lot
Falsehoods
Behind
Different
Want
Dishonesty
Dislike
Hollywood
I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.
John Brunner
More
Fact
Myths
Always
Falsehoods
Than
Infinitely
Interesting
Found
In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.
Tom Hulce
World
Internet
Be True
Wikipedia
Write
True
Stuff
Falsehoods
Anyone
Many