Academic Quote by Michael Ignatieff

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

— Thomas Jefferson

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

— William O. Douglas

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

— William James

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

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

— A. D. Gordon

Ideas are useless unless used.

— Theodore Levitt

Some things that are true are not very useful.

— Boyd K. Packer

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference…

— William James

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

— Steve Allen

“concentrate on knowing what is falsey, and then everything else you can consider truthy. Let’s look at some examples of using these falsey values”

— Eric Freeman

“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do…

— Charles Darwin

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do…

— Charles Darwin