Quotes About Falsify

#1. The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

William H Gass

#2. For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.

Lysander Spooner

#3. There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

Hosea Ballou

#4. We ... recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history - the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of compromise with those who would distort the ideals of men that died for freedom.

Carlos Bulosan

#5. What is disquieting is that where the USSR and its policies are concerned one cannot expect intelligent criticism or even, in many cases, plain honesty from Liberal [ sic - and throughout as typescript] writers and journalists who are under no direct pressure to falsify their opinions.

George Orwell

#6. Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

Sathya Sai Baba

#7. In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

James Schuyler

#8. [On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so profound, that any attempt to present it as a unified, consistent whole, to enclose it within a rigid frame, inevitably tempts one to cheat or to falsify.

Iris Origo

#9. I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

Elizabeth I

#10. As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer's mind.

Iris Murdoch

#11. It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.
But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact.

Toba Beta

#12. If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it.
But if you don't , you'll find ways to falsify it.

Toba Beta

#13. The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

Henry Adams

#14. There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#15. This is how you falsify reality, ... The problem in India is not the Islamic fundamentalists. It's the Hindu fundamentalists, who will destroy India in the end.

Mahesh Bhatt

#16. We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

Karl Barth

#17. To paint, to write, to engage in politics - these are not merely 'sublimations'; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history.

Simone De Beauvoir

#18. It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

Mo Ibrahim

#19. Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

William S. Burroughs

#20. The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

Joseph Addison

#21. To separate meditation from prayer, reading and contemplation is to falsify our picture of the monastic way of prayer. In proportion as meditation takes on a more contemplative character, we see that it is not only a means to an end, but also has something of the nature of an end.

Thomas Merton

#22. We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.

Franz Boas

#23. The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

Franz Kafka

#24. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.

Karl Popper

#25. Let the corporations do as they please
pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets
and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

Lewis H. Lapham

#26. yesterday made me think of something.

Kiera Cass

#27. Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

John Podhoretz

#28. A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#29. There is not a scrabble word for how bad I feel." -We Were Liars

E. Lockhart

#30. ... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water.

Eugie Foster

#31. Internet has grown to not only touch humans in a physical sense but also in an emotional sense.

Santosh Kalwar

#32. For the loser now
Will be later to win

Bob Dylan

#33. A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"

Yip Harburg

#34. Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

Sacha Guitry

#35. But economical Mother Nature was always repeating herself, on such vastly different scales as the swirl of milk stirred into coffee, the cloud lanes of a cyclonic storm, the arms of a spiral nebula.

Arthur C. Clarke

#36. Imagine how titanic an echo chamber this great city would seem without the noise of eve none of mine. A huge bronze bell deprived of one hidden small iron clapper, its sole reason for being, its single means of song.

Allan Gurganus

#37. We're sending you best wishes
And hope your day goes well
And that you'll find some memories
With stories you can tell
Of how you had a marvelous time
And those around you too
With fun and lots of laughter
And all this just for you..
Have a Very Happy Birthday

Janet Horne

#38. My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

Ai Weiwei