Logo
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on eq

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Honesty
category

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. – Edgar J. Mohn

Category:
Honesty

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. – Christian Nevell Bovee

Category:
Honesty

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Honesty

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it. – Author Unknown

Category:
Honesty

Random Quotes

I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness. – Princess Margaret

Category:
Happiness

I think you cant really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether its New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You cant escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of. – Jack White

Category:
Age

Im lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And thats important because I want to know that I dont have to take an acting job for two or three years if I dont want to and that Ill still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs. – Ashley Greene

Category:
car

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. – Leigh Hunt

Category:
Imagination