Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. – Leonardo da Vinci

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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. – Aesop

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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. – William Shenstone

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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