Quotes About False Truths

#1. How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.

Delmore Schwartz

#2. I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see their all just hiding behind false truths.

Nikki Rowe

#3. The truth is the earth's most perpetual commodity. The lie can be painted as wished, embellished in gold and silver, too. False witnesses and false truths can be provided to support it. But only the truth is unchanging.

Diana Khalil

#4. We are all born free
and spend a lifetime
becoming slaves
to our own
false truths.

Atticus Poetry

#5. How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

Nina Berberova

#6. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Julia Glass

#7. In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

Leon Kass

#8. Okay, you must have forgotten that I know when someone's lying-it's one of my special, freaky priestess gifts, remember-the one you love to use until it becomes inconvenient for you? You can try to throw me off, but even half truths ring false with me.

Amy A. Bartol

#9. In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

Brian Cox

#10. If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout.

Joel Stein

#11. Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.

Philip Sidney

#12. Freud, as I've already noted, believed that the false worlds of our dreams reveal deep and hidden truths about ourselves.

Kathryn Schulz

#13. I'm just getting my sea legs. The first time you make them laugh, you're like, 'Oh my God - that just happened.' Then you're like, 'I made them laugh. I've earned this.'

Brie Larson

#14. I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

Talib Kweli

#15. Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

Abraham Lincoln

#16. The longer I live the more I mistrust
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.
-from Transcendental Etude

Adrienne Rich

#17. Splat. This one showed

Diana Gabaldon

#18. If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.

George Strait

#19. They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Niels Bohr

#21. It is not easy to overcome our natural love of ease, our indisposition to self-denying devotedness, and our false tenderness in flinching from the declaration of unpalatable truths.

Charles Bridges

#22. Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend and step off before it is discredited.

George Soros

#23. That hurts my pride, Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Dean Kamen

#25. What did immortality do to one who was once mortal? It stretched him thin.

S. Jae-Jones

#26. Science cannot promise eternal truths; only the elimination of false hypotheses and the establishment of what is currently the most likely explanation of an aspect of reality

David Filkin