Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false and most are uncertain.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images devious and prejudicial language dubious linkages weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

Men will confess to treason murder arson false teeth or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Humor distorts nothing and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist which quite a lot of playwrights especially playwrights younger than me have become guilty of.

And as far as false hope there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

A lot of people because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed to be the repository of other people's hope.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope by a limit imposed from without but falsely identified as lying within.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

If history is any indication all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

History is an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible and that happiness is always shared.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

I hate big government but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services ' it's actually a 'false choice.'

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved despite the government's false claims.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well but that it has limits.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

America is false to the past false to the present and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.