Vacuously True Statements

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or statements:

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)