Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981) American non-denominational spiritual teacher
The one-sentence peace message summarizing her ideas. Ch. 3 : The Pilgrimage
Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982)
“The proximity between the counterfeit and the good coin does not make the good coin counterfeit nor the counterfeit good. In the same way the proximity between truth and falsehood does not make truth falsehood nor falsehood truth.”
The Deliverance from Error https://www.amazon.com/Al-Ghazalis-Path-Sufism-Deliverance-al-Munqidh/dp/1887752307
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“Cling to truth and it turns into falsehood. Understand falsehood and it turns into truth.”
Ryōkan (1758–1831) Japanese Buddhist monk
As translated in 1,001 Pearls of Wisdom (2006) by David Ross, p. 36
Context: Cling to truth and it turns into falsehood. Understand falsehood and it turns into truth. Truth and falsehood are two sides of the same coin. Neither accept one nor reject the other.
“Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916–2008) President of Sri Lanka
Quoted on Archives. Daily News, "Dingiri Banda Wijetunga - the journey to greatness" http://archives.dailynews.lk/2008/09/22/fea01.asp, September 22, 2008.
James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis
St. 5
The Present Crisis (1844)
Context: Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
"It's written by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1871-1964), as part of a 1917 preface to Boswell's 'Life of Johnson.'" <br class="br"> The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page http://www.samueljohnson.com/apocryph.html#2 Retrieved 2013-07-07 <br class="br">Misattributed
Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 5, "Cognitive ease", page 62 (ISBN 9780141033570).
“The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.”
William O. Douglas (1898–1980) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Mike Wallace interview (4 November 1958), quoted in The Great Quotations (1966) by George Seldes
Other speeches and writings
“Though Truth and Falsehood be
Near twins, yet Truth a little elder is.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Satyre III (c. 1598)
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited
Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 104)