False Truths Quotes

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

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. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.

Majorities are no less exposed to error and frustration than kings and dictators. That a fact is deemed true by the majority does not prove its truth.

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

What time is it? It is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.