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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. — Arthur Schopenhauer

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue. — H.L. Mencken

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. — Edward R. Murrow

A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships. — Anthony Liccione

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. — Antisthenes

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Beauty is achieved through perfection of body and mind. — Elizabeth Michels

It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind. — Philip Larkin

You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don't you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone when we are with the myths. — Nadeem Aslam

Is everything sad going to come untrue? — J.R.R. Tolkien

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality. — Sam Harris

the truth is true even if no one believes it, and untrue claims are still untrue even if everyone believes them. — Armin Navabi

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought — Byron Katie

I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue. — Kumail Nanjiani

Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you. — Guy Finley

We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation. — Hermann Hesse

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. — John Gay

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that
for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty
is demonstrably untrue? — Charles Templeton

It matters very little whether your judgments of people are true or untrue, and very much whether they are kind or unkind, — Winston S. Churchill

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview. — Fareed Zakaria

Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that. — Andy Borowitz

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. — Doris Lessing

...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts. — David Weber

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become. — Jack Kerouac

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision. — Quintilian

Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers. — Robert Draper

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue. — Robert Charles Wilson

The most valuable skill we can learn in our lives is to unlearn what is untrue. — Antisthenes

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values. — Mahatma Gandhi

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. — Tom Stoppard

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it. — Neal A. Maxwell

Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself. — Anais Nin

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. — H.L. Mencken

There's a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don't need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way. — Harriet Lerner

Getting drunk doesn't make anything untrue. — Katie McGarry

No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue. — Santosh Kalwar

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. — Richard M. Nixon

There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying. — Blake Lively

When the human being says:
'It is not true ... '
He may mean:
'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'
Or:
'I don't like it. — Idries Shah

I mostly hope you think I miss you and in the end you hope you'll get me, but that's fantasy, untrue as you, and bitter as the hope you left me. — Phar West Nagle

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue. — Vita Sackville-West

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer. — Oliver Goldsmith

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me. — Michael Jackson

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up. — Salman Rushdie

It's not fair. It's not fair, she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue. — Kristin Cashore

The problem with stereotypes is not because they are untrue, its because they are incomplete; they make one story, the only story — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A lot of nasty and untrue things have been said about me. — John Higgins

The untrue things don't deserve to be respected! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. — Bertrand Russell

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. — Sigmund Freud

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America, — Harry Reid

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue ... — Billy Joel

You have Donald Trump just making outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue. — Hillary Clinton

Oscar Wilde's "beautiful untrue things" that save the imagination from falling into "careless habits of accuracy. — Harold Bloom

What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue. — Prince

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin. — A.A. Milne

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. — Stephen Fry

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James

All true definitions of art are circular, and all untrue definitions of art ascribe to it a specific function. A — Julian Barnes

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. — Conrad Veidt

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue. — Boyle Roche

The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself. — Thomas Binney

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don't ever ask for the true story. — Margaret Atwood

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow. — Janet Morris

When wealth flees, untrue friends follow. — Thomas F. Shubnell

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. — Oscar Wilde

The effect of untrue statements on casual conversations is one of my great loves, my great ongoing investigations. — Jesse Ball

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust. — Theodor Haecker

But men are bound to say
Some things that, though untrue,
Will get you down the aisle
Until you say "I do. — Joyce Rachelle

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. — Ambrose Bierce

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course. — Adam Haslett

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. — Francis Spufford

Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they're true. — Marty Rubin

And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I have done since. — Tony Burgess

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal. — Peter Kreeft

Be careful of what you wish for because sometimes it just might come untrue. — Jonathan Dunne

The true word leads; the untrue misleads. — Franz Kafka

Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one — Dennis Prager

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches. — Judith Butler

Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one. — Jude Law

A thought, once uttered, is untrue — Fyodor Tyutchev

It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it's better to tell the truth. — Prince

There is no overacting, only untrue acting. — Stellan Skarsgard

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something. — Dexter Gordon

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue. — Hjalmar Schacht

The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there. — Joanne Harris

We tend to regard history as true and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as untrue. That's always puzzled me. — Tim O'Brien

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. — Sharon Biggs Waller

All knots that lovers tie
Are tied to sever.
Here shall your sweetheart lie,
Untrue for ever. — A.E. Housman

People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live. — Lacey Mosley

Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue. — Gustave Flaubert

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. — Boy George

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person. — Ian MacKaye

Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own. — P. M. Forni

Love is always true and eternal.
Love can't be untrue or occasional. — Debasish Mridha

Of all lies, art is the least untrue. — Gustave Flaubert

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. — George S. Patton

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue ... — J.R.R. Tolkien