False Quotes

• A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Error
  • Knife
  • Blade

• If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • System
  • London
  • False

• Each of my paintings is a cycle. It’s like existence, life. They are always in motion.. .If they were fixed and static, they would be false.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Existence
  • Motion
  • Paintings

• In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Teaching
  • Questions
  • Scripture

• The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.

  

  Nicolas Gomez Davila
  • Style
  • Ideas
  • Fool

• I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Admiration
  • Honour
  • saw

• Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

  

  John Milton
  • Punishment
  • False
  • Fugitive

• A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Things
  • Imagine
  • False

• Advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

  

  Ann Bridge
  • Values
  • Advertising
  • False

• True words seem false.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Words
  • False

• There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

  

  Stephen Vincent Benet
  • Blessings
  • Materials
  • Trials

• False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Hope
  • False

• I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

  

  Jane Austen
  • History
  • True
  • False

• True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.

  

  Warren Murphy
  • Love
  • True
  • Persons

• It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Grace
  • Rebellion
  • Bondage

• He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

  

  Homer
  • True
  • Knew
  • False

• People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

  

  Eugen Drewermann
  • Belief
  • Choice
  • Alternative

• Something may be fully approved of … well transmitted … well cogitated ... well pondered, yet it may be empty, hollow, and false; but something else may not be well pondered, yet it may be factual, true, and unmistaken. Under these conditions it is not proper for a wise man who preserves truth to come to the definite conclusion: ‘Only this is true, anything else is wrong.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Truth
  • Conditions
  • Conclusion

• He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Great
  • Interest
  • False

• Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • True
  • False
  • Mouth

• It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • False
  • Shrink
  • Impostors

• Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • History
  • False

• If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Life
  • Views
  • False

• True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Power
  • Change
  • Struggle

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