Untrue Quotes

181 Untrue quotes by 158 unique authors

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of… — David F. Wells
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever. — A. E. Housman
There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses,… — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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… — Aidan Chambers
Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue, — Deborah Harkness
Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very… — Kurt Vonnegut
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
An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead… — Daniel Handler
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to… — Bart D. Ehrman
I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what… — George Harrison
If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin. — A A Milne
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become. — Jack Kerouac
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek's… — Shannon Hale
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
Well, if the excitement's over, I think I'll take a bath.' 'Wow. The harsh lifestyle of a succubus. I wish I had your job.' 'Hey,… — Richelle Mead
The future of our relationship hinged on advice from a fifteen-year old girl, a probably untrue story from a one-eyed Chihuahua trainer, and me unromantically… — Richelle Mead
Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was something they did… — Miranda July
She couldn't make it untrue. — Maggie Stiefvater
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,… — H. L. Mencken
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with… — Francis Parkman
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. — Bertrand Russell
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. — H. L. Mencken

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