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Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
they won't be false and they won't be true,
but hey'll be real.
True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.
There is always some truth behind lies
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
Causes have effects, and if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them. If we have chosen the way of falsity we must not be surprised that truth eludes us when we finally come to need it! O
There are three types of lies
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.
Truth is a necessary phantom.
There are many hidden truths behind a lie
THERE IS SOMETHING INHERENTLY DECEPTIVE ABOUT REALITY.
The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.
We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls
There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion.
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from them.
Every lying thought bears in itself a proof of its falsehood. This proof is its deadly effect upon the heart;
Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.
Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.
THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY
Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, ... some lies can be true, ... broken faith may be restored.
We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.
As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding of the world around you, and teaches you that you're very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.
Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world.
When then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as Plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true.
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
In life, you will hear many fantastical and astounding things, what is important is sorting out the fact from the fiction.
The lies that lurk in the shadows of truth.
The biggest ever scientific fraud
Nothing seems true that cannot also seem false.
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.
There's three kinds of lies in this world:
There's lies ...
There's damned lies ...
And there's statistics
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth
it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
There are truths and lies and there are things in between, murky waters where light gets bent and broken.
Proof by analogy is fraud.
A half-truth masquerading as a whole truth becomes a complete untruth
Strange things are said to have happened in this world - some are said to be happening still - but half of them, if I'm any judge, are lies.
The truth is the earth's most perpetual commodity. The lie can be painted as wished, embellished in gold and silver, too. False witnesses and false truths can be provided to support it. But only the truth is unchanging.
We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
Hidden truths are unspoken lies
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism.
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
A careful fake is better than the truth. The truth lacks realism.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Deceptions are more frequent than changes
If lying and fabrication are psychologically harmful even in ordinary relations with other men (a sphere where a certain amount of falsification is not uncommon) all falsity is disastrous in any relation with the ground of our own being
The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.
[...] we can find no true or existent fact, no true assertion, without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not otherwise, although most of the time these reasons cannot be known to us.
Oh, the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
A lie cannot live.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever reminds us that "in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis".
We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.
Lies do not lie, truth do, In the times of any act lies lie hidden behind.
They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
A false fact is what it is: a lie.
Inconsistencies," answered Imlac, "cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true." - Rasselas.
There is no fact or fiction, reality or illusion, there is only the trick of perception.
Our only choice is between irrespirable truths and salutary frauds.
There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth
There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
Unless you've been living under a rock, you should know that material things lie. Supercars lie, houses lie, shiny stuff lie. Men lie, women lie. But remember this: it is IMPOSSIBLE for the eyes to lie. They
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
Certainly it is not to invent explanations which dismiss the chief political and historical fact of the matter: that the forgery is being believed. This fact is more important than the (historically speaking, secondary) circumstance that it is forgery.
Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that which we know, can we surmise the elements of that which we do not.
Surely if Alternative Facts are untrue they should be called Ficts?
There is a fine line between truth and magick.
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
WHAT THINGS SEEM MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE,
Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies.
Lies exist only to be extinguished.
The real truths are those that can be invented.
One basic truth can be used as a foundation for a mountain of lies
Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.
There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.
I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical
He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.
What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.
Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.