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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. -- Fiona Apple
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. -- Harold Pinter
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? -- Mason Cooley
He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false. -- Baruch Spinoza
Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape. -- Edwin Paxton Hood
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. -- George R. R. Martin
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 -- Ingrid Bergman
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. -- Ingmar Bergman
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. -- John Bunyan
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. -- Hannah Arendt
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. -- Arne Tiselius
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. -- George R. R. Martin
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. -- Paul Tillich
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
A hair divides what is false and true. -- Omar Khayyam
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. -- Joseph Roux
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. -- C. S. Lewis
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. -- Saul Bellow
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Richard Burton
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. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Niels Bohr
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. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- Baron de Montesquieu
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. -- John Ruskin
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. -- Frederick Douglass
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. -- Salvador Dali
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. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
True words seem false. -- Laozi
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable. -- Robert Bresson
Propositions are true or false. Images are not. -- Gene Edward Veith Jr.
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. -- William Rounseville Alger
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. -- William Rounseville Alger
Ring out the false, ring in the true. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The religions we call false were once true. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. -- Jean Genet
In a false quarrel there is no true valor. -- William Shakespeare
True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. -- C. S. Lewis
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories, -- Elizabeth Loftus
Sentences are not as such either true or false. -- J. L. Austin
There is no true life within a false life. -- Theodor Adorno
Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. -- Georges Braque
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat. -- Mason Cooley
The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. -- George Carlin
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. -- Douglas Hofstadter
True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'. -- Buddhadasa
Believe that story false that ought not to be true. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute. -- Charles Tomlinson
What is true is true, and what is false is false... -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic. -- Laini Taylor
What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything. -- Guy Finley
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. -- George Bernard Shaw
No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false. -- Justin Martyr
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true. -- Henry David Thoreau
Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others. -- Francis Bacon
Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway. -- Mother Teresa
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions. -- Bill James
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity -- Voltaire
He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings. -- Homer
Just because a prediction is true, doesn't mean that it is not false. -- Lionel Suggs
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. -- Joseph Addison
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. -- F. H. Bradley
Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. -- Christoph Waltz
If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone. -- William Shakespeare
To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish. -- Thomas Carlyle
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. -- John Dryden
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. -- Paulo Freire
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway -- Pravinee Hurbungs
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- Saint Augustine
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. -- Augusto Roa Bastos
The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true. -- Leigh Bardugo
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. -- Konrad Zuse
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.... -- Jacob M. Appel
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding. -- Voltaire
If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway -- Mother Teresa
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. -- Edgar Degas
Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true. -- Ann Coulter
The bigger question, rather than what's true and what's false, is what do we want? -- Josh Tickell
I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible. -- Matt Dillahunty
A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief. -- Pope Leo I
A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error. -- Rene Daumal
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. -- Elizabeth Loftus
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change. -- Kyle Cease
False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones. -- Albert Camus
As a citizen, you have a duty to ask what is true and what is false. -- Tom Hiddleston
Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice. -- Ann Radcliffe
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. -- George Santayana
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample. -- Jeffrey Shallit
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones. -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others. -- Tony Dungy
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. -- Katherine Mansfield
In true love you want your partner to be happy. In false love you want your partner. -- Paulo Coelho
To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false. -- Stuart Sutherland
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. -- Ben Jonson
Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part. -- Mahmud Shabistari
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves. -- Marjane Satrapi
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false. -- John Ziman
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful. -- Seneca the Younger
The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. -- Lactantius
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. -- Josh Billings
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false. -- Robert Collier
All beliefs and understanding about everything in this universe that you currently hold to be true, are false. -- Mamur Mustapha
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. -- Richard Dawkins
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true. -- Michelangelo
True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper

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