False Quotes

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. (George Bernard Shaw)
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. View quote
Socrates
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. View quote
Niels Bohr
Round numbers are always false. View quote
Samuel Johnson
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. View quote
Paul Valéry
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed. View quote
Livy
Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people. View quote
Kristen Stewart
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. View quote
Harriet Martineau
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. View quote
F. H. Bradley
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. View quote
William Shakespeare
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. View quote
Morris Raphael Cohen
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. View quote
John Updike
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. View quote
George Boole
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. (Margaret Mead)
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. View quote
Seneca
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Sentences are not as such either true or false. View quote
J. L. Austin
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. View quote
Guy Debord