Top 1200 True And False Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.

It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.

A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and more and have our being.

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

I'd say that it's often true that people are attracted to each other immediately and everything lines up, but it's just as true for those relationships to end up a disaster. But people don't think of that as false love-at-first-sight. They highlight the examples that worked rather than the ones that failed.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

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

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.

Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to the preservation of a false order of facts. And this false consciousness has become embodied in the prevailing technical apparatus which in turn reproduces it.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it's not true.

If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.

A false identity is any lie that contradicts our God-given identities through Scripture. These false identities can be created by ourselves because of sin in our lives, choices made, or wrong turns taken and the regret, guilt, and shame that follows. Other false identities are handed to us by outside sources, maybe a damaging word spoken to us by someone or a childhood of abuse. However, not all false identities are negative on the surface, such as successful, attractive, wealthy, athletic, or talented. But even those identities can become false when we place too much of our weight on them.

This is in us: a certain sense of denial, a certain sense of groupthink. This is not something that sits on one party line or the other. We've seen it in all permutations throughout history, and at the core of it is a certain insistence that what we want to be true is now true, and what we don't like is now false.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample.

True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

The paradigm helps a person identify the thought system, which is almost always false, that is behind the rationale for the continuation of excuses. It helps them really look at excuses from an objective point of view and realize that everything they've been thinking is just as likely to be not true as it is to be true.

I know from experience, once something is said on camera, true or false, it follows you forever.

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

We need to take a step back, and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.

All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and my believing is causally responsible for my saying . . . If none of that is literally true, then practically everything I believe about anything is false and it's the end of the world.

Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.

Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.

Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.