It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
Constant development is the law of life and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Knowledge is two-fold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true but in the negation of that which is false.
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.