A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Quotations by St. Augustine

Other quotes and quotations :

• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde
• Many a true word is spoken in jest. English Proverb
• If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. Epictetus
• Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. Marcel Proust
• All words are part true and part false. Master Kahn
• Be true to your teeth and they won’t be false to you. Soupy Sales
• The true is inimitable, the false untransformable. Robert Bresson
• A hair divides what is false and true. Omar Khayyam
• In a false quarrel there is no true valor. William Shakespeare
• I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. Ben Johnson