Top 1200 True And False Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

False stories can be promulgated more easily when the people trying to tell true stories have been discredited - or when they are battered by rubber bullets.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories.

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.

From what it seems like in my follower base, they have these bad misconceptions about China, and some of them are true and some are false.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

The following statement is true. The previous statement is false.

I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that interests me about memoir. It should be as much about how we remember, and that includes false memories, and the realization that one is having a false memory. That's the kind of an interesting way of layering the whole experience of recollection.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews, that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's the wicked Jews, false Jews, that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

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

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.