Quotes about TRUE and FALSE

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. Votes: 4

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. Votes: 4

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? Votes: 3

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false. Votes: 3

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape. Votes: 3

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all. Votes: 3

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal Votes: 3

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal. Votes: 3

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else. Votes: 3

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. Votes: 3

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language. Votes: 3

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death. Votes: 3

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social. Votes: 3

The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them. Votes: 3

A hair divides what is false and true. Votes: 2

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Votes: 2

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. Votes: 2

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. Votes: 2

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. Votes: 2

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. Votes: 2

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. Votes: 2

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. Votes: 2

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. Votes: 2

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Votes: 2

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. Votes: 2

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. Votes: 2

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. Votes: 2

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. Votes: 2

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches. Votes: 2

True words seem false. Votes: 0

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable. Votes: 0

Propositions are true or false. Images are not. Votes: 0

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. Votes: 0

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. Votes: 0

Ring out the false, ring in the true. Votes: 0

The religions we call false were once true. Votes: 0

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. Votes: 0

In a false quarrel there is no true valor. Votes: 0

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. Votes: 0

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion. Votes: 0

We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories, Votes: 0

Sentences are not as such either true or false. Votes: 0

There is no true life within a false life. Votes: 0

Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. Votes: 0

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true. Votes: 0

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat. Votes: 0

The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. Votes: 0

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. Votes: 0

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'. Votes: 0

Believe that story false that ought not to be true. Votes: 0

False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute. Votes: 0

What is true is true, and what is false is false... Votes: 0

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic. Votes: 0

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything. Votes: 0

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. Votes: 0

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false. Votes: 0

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. Votes: 0

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true. Votes: 0

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others. Votes: 0

Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway. Votes: 0

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions. Votes: 0

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity Votes: 0

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings. Votes: 0

Just because a prediction is true, doesn't mean that it is not false. Votes: 0

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. Votes: 0

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. Votes: 0

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. Votes: 0

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone. Votes: 0

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish. Votes: 0

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. Votes: 0

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. Votes: 0

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway Votes: 0

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Votes: 0

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. Votes: 0

The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true. Votes: 0

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. Votes: 0

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. Votes: 0

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. Votes: 0

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true. Votes: 0

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.... Votes: 0

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding. Votes: 0

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway Votes: 0

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. Votes: 0

Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true. Votes: 0

The bigger question, rather than what's true and what's false, is what do we want? Votes: 0

I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible. Votes: 0

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief. Votes: 0

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error. Votes: 0

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Votes: 0

Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. Votes: 0

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. Votes: 0

False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change. Votes: 0

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones. Votes: 0

As a citizen, you have a duty to ask what is true and what is false. Votes: 0

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice. Votes: 0

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. Votes: 0

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. Votes: 0

Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any. Votes: 0

That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample. Votes: 0

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. Votes: 0

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones. Votes: 0

False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others. Votes: 0

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. Votes: 0

In true love you want your partner to be happy. In false love you want your partner. Votes: 0

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false. Votes: 0

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. Votes: 0

Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part. Votes: 0

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves. Votes: 0

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false. Votes: 0

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful. Votes: 0

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. Votes: 0

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. Votes: 0

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false. Votes: 0

All beliefs and understanding about everything in this universe that you currently hold to be true, are false. Votes: 0

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. Votes: 0

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true. Votes: 0

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. Votes: 0

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright. Votes: 0

True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity. Votes: 0

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot Votes: 0

Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures. Votes: 0

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. Votes: 0

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True. Votes: 0

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. Votes: 0

To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind. Votes: 0

Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people. Votes: 0

It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true. Votes: 0

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most. Votes: 0

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other? Votes: 0

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. Votes: 0

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity Votes: 0

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false. Votes: 0

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do? Votes: 0

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public. Votes: 0

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. Votes: 0

There is no need for false solidity when you are at peace with the universal expanse of your true Being. Votes: 0

Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself. Votes: 0

You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love? Votes: 0

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true. Votes: 0

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? Votes: 0

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality. Votes: 0

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question. Votes: 0

The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun. Votes: 0

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. Votes: 0

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. Votes: 0

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy. Votes: 0

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others? Votes: 0

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end. Votes: 0

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long Votes: 0

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one... Votes: 0

Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs. Votes: 0

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. Votes: 0

I learnt to identify the false love from true ones by their fruits, humbleness and how free they were from wordily desires. Votes: 0

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion. Votes: 0

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. Votes: 0

All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be. Votes: 0

Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew. Votes: 0

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true. Votes: 0

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong? Votes: 0

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend? Votes: 0

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. Votes: 0

Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice. Votes: 0

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires. Votes: 0

And when in doubt, Josh, follow your heart. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But thisThis is always true. Votes: 0

The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it's not true. Votes: 0

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Votes: 0

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt. Votes: 0

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning. Votes: 0

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true. Votes: 0

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind. Votes: 0

Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep! Votes: 0

An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover. Votes: 0

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean Votes: 0

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. Votes: 0

In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones. Votes: 0

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie. Votes: 0

If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain. Votes: 0

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. Votes: 0

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter. Votes: 0

True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more. Votes: 0

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false. Votes: 0

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. Votes: 0

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false. Votes: 0

...You know something, don't you?""I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.""Just answer the question.""True/false or multiple choice? Votes: 0

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. Votes: 0

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages. Votes: 0

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. Votes: 0

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it. Votes: 0

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past. Votes: 0

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false. Votes: 0

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence. Votes: 0

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. Votes: 0

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue. Votes: 0

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray. Votes: 0

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. Votes: 0

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall. Votes: 0

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Votes: 0

Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false. Votes: 0

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. Votes: 0

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. Votes: 0

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Votes: 0

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. Votes: 0

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own. Votes: 0

I am not pretty, I am not ugly,I am not true, I am not false, I am just me, a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation. Votes: 0

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Votes: 0

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true. Votes: 0

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end. Votes: 0

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by. Votes: 0

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. Votes: 0

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind. Votes: 0

It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution. Votes: 0

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true? Votes: 0

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct. Votes: 0

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart. Votes: 0

Just as thought experiments can't show that vitalism is true (or that it is false), they also can't show that dualism is true (or that it is false). Votes: 0

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false! Votes: 0

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Votes: 0

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. Votes: 0

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false. Votes: 0

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. Votes: 0

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth. Votes: 0

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate. Votes: 0

By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values. Votes: 0

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines. Votes: 0

If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor. Votes: 0