„When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.“

— Jonathan Edwards

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„Much of the debate in Washington has put forward a false choice when it comes to Libya.“
— Barack Obama
„In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was. That meant I think people should get their false teeth and their health looked after, all the rest of it. But apart from that, I worked for money and I wanted to be rich. So what the hell — if that's a paradox, then I'm a socialist. But I am not anything. What I used to be is guilty about money. That's why I lost it, either by giving it away or by allowing myself to be screwed by so-called managers.“
— John Lennon
„An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.“
— Andrei Tarkovsky
„Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein