Top 100 Quotes About Untrue
#1. A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#2. The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue ...
J.R.R. Tolkien
#4. And I began to believe that you could exchange your life, send it back for a different model, and I knew that wasn't really true but I also knew that it wasn't, here, entirely untrue.
Catherine Lacey
#5. The problem with stereotypes is not because they are untrue, its because they are incomplete; they make one story, the only story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#6. The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.
Ronald Knox
#7. Hillary Clinton said there was no marked classified information on her server. The FBI Director said that's untrue.She said that she did not email any classified information. The FBI Director says that's untrue.
Chris Christie
#8. Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself.
Anais Nin
#9. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
C.S. Lewis
#11. And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I have done since.
Tony Burgess
#12. But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000, and paint barely 1 in 100 of those that I photograph. I am therefore seeking something quite specific; from this I conclude that I know what I want.
Gerhard Richter
#13. To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
Lauryn Hill
#14. We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
Peter Kreeft
#15. Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one
Dennis Prager
#16. The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.
James F. Cooper
#17. A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
Sharon Biggs Waller
#18. The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#19. A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
Catherine Crowe
#20. Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
Boyle Roche
#21. It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. Graham always used to say that I was shocked when he came out. That implies some sort of moral objection. Untrue. I was not 'shocked', I was very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very surprised.
John Cleese
#23. Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.
Barbara Cartland
#25. As a fact it was, in my mind, at one and the same time absolutely true and obviously untrue, and perhaps only children are able to accommodate double-faced facts like these.
Zadie Smith
#26. Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) is the sffulgence of Shanthi.
Sathya Sai Baba
#27. The most valuable skill we can learn in our lives is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
#29. I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.
Tibor Kalman
#30. All statements about the hydrides of boron earlier than 1912, when Stock began to work upon them, are untrue.
Alfred Stock
#31. Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they're true.
Marty Rubin
#33. He who repeats a tale after a man,
Is bound to say, as nearly as he can,
Each single word, if he remembers it,
However rudely spoken or unfit,
Or else the tale he tells will be untrue,
The things invented and the phrases new.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#34. I think you feel like, unless you're damaged
you're not deep enough or mysterious enough
or complicated enough to ever be appreciated by another.
And that is deeply untrue.
Stacy Morris
#35. Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart.
Chuck Spezzano
#36. It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. I think humanitarian organizations should acknowledge the progress more than they do. I think that one reason people are reluctant to provide more help to Africa, for example, is this sense that it's just hopeless, in a way that I think is untrue.
Nicholas Kristof
#40. Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
Marianne Williamson
#41. We tend to regard history as true and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as untrue. That's always puzzled me.
Tim O'Brien
#42. True kindness is an anchor that drops deep into the heart and you feel it while it's dropping. Meanwhile, untrue kindness is merely a condition of the face.
C. JoyBell C.
#43. I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
Fareed Zakaria
#44. That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.
Victoria Moran
#45. One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue ... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.
David Hilbert
#46. I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.
Neal Ascherson
#47. The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#48. One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue.
Walter Lippmann
#50. It is the mistaken idea that if I reward mediocrity, I will curtail the person's aspirations to be better. That is a commonly held myth that keeps some parents from verbally affirming children. Of course, it's untrue.
Gary Chapman
#51. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
H.L. Mencken
#52. Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.
Eugene O'Neill
#53. The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.
Hjalmar Schacht
#54. Those who slander others,' Sachish said, 'do so because they love slander, not because they love truth. It's pointless therefore to struggle to prove that a piece of slander is untrue.
Rabindranath Tagore
#55. If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
Tom Stoppard
#56. I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.
Heidi Julavits
#57. Be careful of what you wish for because sometimes it just might come untrue.
Jonathan Dunne
#58. Both transparency and trust form the basic component of truth itself. With truth, there is no need to be untrue. If one is truthful, then there is godliness because God is truth. And when godliness is on your side, success is guaranteed.
Vishwas Chavan
#59. There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying.
Blake Lively
#60. We spend most of our life cooking up all kinds of untrue things. Why? So we won't be afraid. The mind likes to soothe itself with stories, and after they get made up, we run around under their spell.
Deepak Chopra
#61. Goodness knows she is too fierce for you
Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord
Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue
Her cheek's blush is as false as her word
Shannon Hale
#62. Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.
John Gay
#63. Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#64. I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue
Chris Coons
#65. When I turned pro, I made a vow to myself never to bow to PR bullshit, to never be untrue to myself, and I'm proud to say that I've never really deviated from that principle - often with some fairly incendiary results. Having
Cavendish Mark
#66. Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
Salman Rushdie
#67. One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue. But as someone had pointed out to her in school, although the odds are good, the goods are odd.
Maureen F. McHugh
#68. After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.
Frank Beddor
#69. When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.
Ian MacKaye
#70. It matters very little whether your judgments of people are true or untrue, and very much whether they are kind or unkind,
Winston S. Churchill
#71. When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
Doris Lessing
#72. Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Benjamin Haydon
#73. It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
Sam Harris
#74. The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!
Taylor Swift
#75. ...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.
Adam Haslett
#77. It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil, ... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
George McGovern
#78. To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#79. Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
Oscar Wilde
#80. What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
H.L. Mencken
#81. Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
#82. No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue.
Santosh Kalwar
#83. To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being and does not rise to personality, he has failed to realize his life's meaning. Fortunately,
C. G. Jung
#84. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
Ira Glass
#85. I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.
Dean Winters
#86. I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
Bertrand Russell
#87. All true definitions of art are circular, and all untrue definitions of art ascribe to it a specific function. A
Julian Barnes
#88. Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.
P. M. Forni
#89. The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
Franz Kafka
#90. What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
Eugene T. Gendlin
#91. If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
Dexter Gordon
#92. This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz's money comes from Washington, from outside the state of Texas, and they've run millions and millions of untrue ads against me.
David Dewhurst
#93. The argument was wilful,
The alternatives untrue,
We need no metaphysics
To sanction what we do
Or to muffle us in comfort
From what we did not do.
Louis MacNeice
#94. The Law of Logical Insanity: Anything that can easily be explained using common sense and rational thought is probably too simplistic and therefore false and untrue.
Ian Strang
#95. I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
David Simon
#97. A lot of nasty and untrue things have been said about me.
John Higgins
#98. Who was it who said, the worst thing you can imagine is probably what's already happening? Shrink phrase. Not untrue, though.
Michael Cunningham
#99. I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.
Kola Boof
#100. Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements
and this is untrue.
Richard Rhodes
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