Quotes of Untrue - somelinesforyou

“ We have what I think we call the smoking gun,... The additional evidence clearly demonstrates the testimony Mr. Galloway provided the sub-committee was false and misleading. ”

- Norm Coleman

“ What is true is true, and what is false is false… ”

- Emanuel Swedenborg

“ That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. ”

- Paul Valery

“ A hair divides what is false and true. ”

- Omar Khayyam

“ That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ The false lapwynge, full of trecherye. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. ”

- George Meredith

“ Love is like a game of chess: One false move and you're mated. ”

- Unknown

“ I'm interested in what credible critics say about me. I think Mr. Martin's credibility is reflected in the false and misleading ads that he's running. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ False face must hide what the false heart doth know. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Today's misleading recommendations by the F.D.A. are the latest example where the agency has put the public at risk by providing inaccurate information about condoms. ”

- Tom Coburn

“ There's never a false note in a Berg novel. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ The whole is the false. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these? ”

- Carlo Brumat

“ I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these? ”

- Carol Burnett

“ Ring out the false, ring in the true. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ 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

“ Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it. ”

- Unknown

“ I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. ”

- Richard Nixon

“ Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ 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

“ Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue. ”

- Unknown

“ Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ”

- Antisthenes

“ The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. ”

- Lord Byron

“ To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life, the word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away a man who's untrue to his wife. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ”

- Russell Baker
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