False Quotes

Every white man in this country has been raised with a false sense of power.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

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

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let's stop thinking that there's only one country who's going to pay for the others. That's false.

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

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.