Quotes on Truth And Falsehood

It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Time's glory is to command contending kings,_x000D_ _x000D_ To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.