Untrue But True Quotes

#1. If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Tom Stoppard

#2. 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

#3. The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they're true.

Marty Rubin

#8. We tend to regard history as true and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as untrue. That's always puzzled me.

Tim O'Brien

#9. 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.

#10. Beauty is achieved through perfection of body and mind.

Elizabeth Michels

#11. 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

#12. ...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

David Weber

#13. 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

#14. It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Stephen Fry

#15. Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.

Guy Finley

#16. At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true ... This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.

Stephen Prothero

#17. 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

#18. The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

Franz Kafka

#19. All true definitions of art are circular, and all untrue definitions of art ascribe to it a specific function. A

Julian Barnes

#20. 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

#21. People forget that stereotypes aren't bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

George Takei

#22. the truth is true even if no one believes it, and untrue claims are still untrue even if everyone believes them.

Armin Navabi

#23. The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don't ever ask for the true story.

Margaret Atwood

#24. If we sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth, no one can be certain what they are hearing at any given time. Like yin and yang, truth and lies are inseparable, each containing a seed of the other, no words are ever entirely true or entirely untrue.

Chloe Thurlow

#25. I do. I choose you,
which is to choose him and the others and to say
Everything I was ever told of love

was so simple as to be untrue.
Let me see for myself what you desire beside me.
Let me look it in the face and kiss him.

Jameson Fitzpatrick

#26. If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

Janet Morris

#27. It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.

Philip Larkin

#28. Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.

Selena Gomez

#29. We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

#30. The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Edward R. Murrow

#31. I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.

Andy Cohen

#32. When the human being says:
'It is not true ... '
He may mean:
'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'
Or:
'I don't like it.

Idries Shah

#33. I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.

Byron Katie

#34. Love is always true and eternal.
Love can't be untrue or occasional.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God's grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.

Richard III Of England

#36. Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#37. I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

Baron De Montesquieu

#38. Insofar as it is true, the idea that our actions or beliefs are merely one link in a causal link that runs back to the beginning of the universe is making a trivial claim. Insofar as it is saying something profound, the claim is untrue.

Kenan Malik

#39. It is true that no one can save you, no one but yourself. And sometimes ... even you cannot save you, no matter how much you wish it was untrue. Sadly, some things are not meant to be saved.

Lindy Zart