Jacques Benigne Bossuet Quotes

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

A half truth is a whole lie.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

Sentences defended as literally accurate can mislead.

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

Perception's not reality.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Error is created; truth is eternal.

The distortion of the truth bothers me.