False Quotes

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 way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

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.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let's stop thinking that there's only one country who's going to pay for the others. That's false.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.