False Quotes

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.

Every white man in this country has been raised with a false sense of power.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.