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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity
The priest is the personification of falsehood
The priest is the personification of falsehood
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can read more
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, read more
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This read more
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.