Falsehood Quote by Niels Bohr

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

— Niels Bohr

One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that…

— Niels Bohr

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also…

— Niels Bohr

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

— Anonymous

“The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this,…

— Neil Postman

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

— Thomas Sowell

“The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“But the point is, when the writer turns to address the reader, he or she must not only speak to me—naively dazzled and wholly…

— Samuel R. Delany

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a…

— Henry Miller

“. . . there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have and the other person…

— Alexander McCall Smith

...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all…

— Alfonso Garcia Robles

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of…

— Herbert Hoover