False Quotes

• The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Dangerous
  • Faults
  • Discovered

• I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Idea
  • Abuse
  • Truths

• 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

• To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • True
  • Christian
  • 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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