"To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true."

Truth, Honesty, Morality, Ethics

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"To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true."

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Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"Sometimes dead is better."

Stephen King, American Author

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Steven Redhead, British Author

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Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Truth was not meant to be told but found."

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Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a fact is against them, it's usually because it's the truth. No one tries to step outside of the edge of reason. No one tries to step beyond the edge of the world."

Society

"Just because a prediction is true, doesn't mean that it is not false."

Philosophy

"Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing but an empty shell. Understand your 'Self,' for if you don't, then who or what are you?"

Identity

"When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win."

Theology

"If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create."

Creation

"People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it."

Skepticism

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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"Sometimes dead is better."

"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."

"Truth was not meant to be told but found."

"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Explore more quotes by Lionel Suggs

"Just because a prediction is true, doesn't mean that it is not false."

"Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing but an empty shell. Understand your 'Self,' for if you don't, then who or what are you?"

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"If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create."

"People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it."

"Sometimes, in order to find happiness, one must allow some old bridges to collapse, in order to build better ones."

"Reality cannot breathe without imagination."

"You can't change reality -- only its perception."

"A woman's beauty should not imitate art."