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The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
by William Cobbett (Politician, English , born in 1763) keywords: budget, buoy, empty, falsehoods, last, long, many, off, played, press, quite, seems, spirits, their, trade, tricks, up, uttered, very , whose It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
by Margaret Fuller (Critic, American , born in 1810) keywords: astonishing, being, clear, falsehoods, force, human, keep, purity, requires , wisdom We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
by Hesiod (Poet , Greek) keywords: falsehoods, how, know, many, real, resemble, speak, things, true , will Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
by Samuel P. Huntington (Sociologist , born in 1927) keywords: accepted, citing, claims, easily, exceptions, exposed, falsehoods, hence, less, likely, their, total , truth He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
by Thomas Jefferson (President, American , born in 1743) keywords: closer, errors, falsehoods, filled, knows, mind, nothing, than, truth , whose A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
by Maurice Maeterlinck (Dramatist, Belgian , born in 1862) keywords: because, falsehoods, more, most, stimulating, than, true, truth , value 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
by Alexander Pope (Poet, English , born in 1688) keywords: blunt, counsel, enough, falsehoods, mischief, more, nice, still, than, tis, true, truths , your 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.
by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Explorer, Canadian , born in 1879) keywords: advertising, between, deceive, difference, ethical, falsehoods, public, truth, unethical , uses 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.
by Anne Sullivan (Educator, American , born in 1866) keywords: children, desire, discrimination, excite, falsehoods, great, growing, know, mistake, nonsense, observation, off, powers, put, their, them, things , think