False Quote by William James

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

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

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

— Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

— Robert Pinsky

I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment…

— Eugene Ionesco

“ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion”

— Patricia Crone

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

— A. D. Gordon

In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.

— Michael Ignatieff

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is…

— Gaston Bachelard

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

— David Lynch

Ideas are, in truth, force.

— Henry James

Truth happens to an idea

— William James