Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareThe illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellFalse optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness. Votes: 0
Abraham Maslowbelief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production Votes: 0
Gilles DeleuzeThat's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. Votes: 0
Colin TrevorrowThe statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawPrejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination. Votes: 0
Joseph de MaistreToo great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness. Votes: 0
John Lancaster SpaldingSelf esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise. Votes: 0
Condoleezza RiceConcern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertMost people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument. Votes: 0
Lois McMaster BujoldA religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false. Votes: 0
P.D. OuspenskyCrude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. Votes: 0
H. G. WellsFlattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldAny false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding. Votes: 0
Larry WallWhen we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaOr shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. Votes: 0
William WordsworthI could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced. Votes: 0
Walter SchellenbergCharity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice. Votes: 0
Henry GeorgeThe candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false. Votes: 0
Robert BrowningA metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion. Votes: 0
Hermann von HelmholtzFalse conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. Votes: 0
Horace MannTruth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false. Votes: 0
Walter MartinOver and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false. Votes: 0
Paul D. BoyerNo character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonHumor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierWhen all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love. Votes: 0
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajThere are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions. Votes: 0
Bill JamesAll religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious. Votes: 0
Ibn WarraqFacts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. Votes: 0
Christoph WaltzIt is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research. Votes: 0
Roger WickerEvery generationâs breakthroughs are proven false by the next generationâs Technology Votes: 0
Dan BrownAll separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one... Votes: 0
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajI prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea. Votes: 0
Robert DoisneauFEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. Votes: 0
Neale Donald WalschHumility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldEvery truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine. Votes: 0
K.P. YohannanJesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable. Votes: 0
John RobbinsThe more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollMany have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciIn a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false. Votes: 0
Austin Osman SparePlots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. Votes: 0
John DrydenEnvy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciRealization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized. Votes: 0
Ramana MaharshiAbandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. Votes: 0
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajNo sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is! Votes: 0
Sheri S. TepperFalse as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them. Votes: 0
Thomas OtwayI revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. Votes: 0
Ellen GlasgowPhysical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth. Votes: 0
Benjamin WhichcoteThe early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today. Votes: 0
Vance HavnerIf you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway Votes: 0
Pravinee HurbungsExcept in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). Votes: 0
Carl SaganTo be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleFor to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Votes: 0
John MiltonTrue praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. Votes: 0
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersTrue praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerFalse praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite. Votes: 0
HoraceFalse pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. Votes: 0
John LubbockFatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be ... Votes: 0
Pearl S. BuckA thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineLetters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. Votes: 0
Augusto Roa BastosBut are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? Votes: 0
H. P. LovecraftIt is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology). Votes: 0
George SorosThat which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Votes: 0
Paul ValeryA false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. Votes: 0
James ThurberIf you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway Votes: 0
Mother TeresaMarketers reinforce the idea - a false one - that celebrity is available to everyone. Votes: 0
Mal FletcherIn the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaIf there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. Votes: 0
Billy SundayIf there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. Votes: 0
Billy SundayWhen you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others. Votes: 0
Randal MarlinThe happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. Votes: 0
Robert W. ServiceFaith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding. Votes: 0
VoltaireSooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. Votes: 0
George OrwellWhen the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear. Votes: 0
Quintus Curtius RufusHow easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms! Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThere is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. Votes: 0
Douglas HurdCheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine. Votes: 0
Barbara EhrenreichI was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane... Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovIf everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyFlattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldActions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er." Votes: 0
Ramana MaharshiThe time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods. Votes: 0
Luther BurbankThe bigger question, rather than what's true and what's false, is what do we want? Votes: 0
Josh TickellFacts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up. Votes: 0
Sarah ChurchwellAlthough God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true. Votes: 0
Ann CoulterThe false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Votes: 0
Isaac AsimovWe are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaU.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. Votes: 0
Elliott AbramsA train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. Votes: 0
Joseph ConradFalse love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. Votes: 0
Walter RaleighMy approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones. Votes: 0
George SorosWhen spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayLast night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm Votes: 0
Steven MorrisseyThe sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice. Votes: 0
Rand PaulA lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy. Votes: 0
Douglas MasseyI hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorThings evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth. Votes: 0
Thomas BrowneWithout independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. Votes: 0
Elizabeth LoftusThe criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. Votes: 0
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeNow that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics. Votes: 0
George SorosThere is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs. Votes: 0
Wayne DyerMalice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation. Votes: 0
Philip MassingerLast night I dreamt that somebody loved me.No hope, no harm; just another false alarm Votes: 0
MorrisseyTo worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell. Votes: 0
Thomas MertonA false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law. Votes: 0
Roger WilliamsWhat is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. Votes: 0
George SantayanaOne voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinThe urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenThe purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality Votes: 0
Robert W. FirestoneA knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error. Votes: 0
Rene DaumalWords may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. Votes: 0
Thomas ShadwellThere is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauFalse judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones. Votes: 0
Albert CamusSow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain. Votes: 0
Horatius BonarWikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story. Votes: 0
Julian AssangeAbandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any. Votes: 0
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajA history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. Votes: 0
Thomas B. Macaulayand where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine Votes: 0
Thomas HobbesClosure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. Votes: 0
Stephen GroszFalse. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change. Votes: 0
Kyle CeaseLust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop. Votes: 0
Francis QuarlesThis industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is. Votes: 0
Morris ChestnutDo not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. Votes: 0
Kent NerburnIt is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false. Votes: 0
Rene DescartesInnocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head. Votes: 0
Ben HechtI think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false Votes: 0
Clifford GeertzSo false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire. Votes: 0
Samuel DanielI never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom. Votes: 0
Robert DonatTo establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false. Votes: 0
Stuart SutherlandMind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it. Votes: 0
Matthew ArnoldSo the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie. Votes: 0
John DrydenIn academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. Votes: 0
Michael IgnatieffReligion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. Votes: 0
William HazlittTo multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting. Votes: 0
Peter HellerKnowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part. Votes: 0
Mahmud ShabistariWe must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both. Votes: 0
Tom RidgeWas there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? Votes: 0
Mason CooleyI believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false. Votes: 0
Marianne MooreBetter to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope. Votes: 0
Trudi CanavanI think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. Votes: 0
Clifford GeertzI think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinIt's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country. Votes: 0
Muriel Lesterhis smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth ... Votes: 0
Rebecca WestIf something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyPeople who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance. Votes: 0
John HowardIt is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd. Votes: 0
Terry EagletonToday will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. Votes: 0
Og MandinoLiberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones. Votes: 0
Alfred Whitney GriswoldI am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet. Votes: 0
Walter MartinI used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention. Votes: 0
Al PacinoIf only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. Votes: 0
Katherine MansfieldIn true love you want your partner to be happy. In false love you want your partner. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoAn economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyThe hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinWithout false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot. Votes: 0
Neil KinnockTo the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerHe who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. Votes: 0
John RuskinI can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them. Votes: 0
Pat RobertsonI would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false. Votes: 0
L. Ron HubbardLove is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made. Votes: 0
OvidThe first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. Votes: 0
LactantiusIf I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic. Votes: 0
Jean RhysGossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. Votes: 0
Frank A. ClarkIf we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauFalse history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. Votes: 0
Adrienne RichAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. Votes: 0
George OrwellI know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerThe way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. Votes: 0
Fiona AppleThere are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false. Votes: 0
Anthony TrollopeTo be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind. Votes: 0
E. Haldeman-JuliusYou might be a redneck if the highlight of your parties is when you flip out your false teeth. Votes: 0
Jeff FoxworthyThere is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. Votes: 0
Francis BaconFalse hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going. Votes: 0
Rob PayneAs a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. Votes: 0
Ashley JensenTruth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldA man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop. Votes: 0
Natalie MassenetWhat kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other? Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneBut in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.
Anna GodbersenWe never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
Blaise PascalFalse reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
Leon TrotskyIn the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.
Malcolm MuggeridgeWhen I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
Sally PhillipsPraise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Francis BaconThe ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellWhatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
Friedrich NietzscheOften regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was.
John O'DonohueTrue modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
Joseph AddisonLife to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits
Lance ArmstrongWhether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.
Marjane SatrapiJesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom
Pope Benedict XVIIgnorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
Ann RadcliffeI have huge legs, and I never show them - not because of false modesty, I'm just not comfortable.
Cheyenne JacksonMusic is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
ConfuciusFalse ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.
Franz WerfelThere is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.
Henry Van DykeDrive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.
HoraceThat's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample.
Jeffrey ShallitTrue generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
Paulo FreireAnd as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.
Thomas CranmerFalse modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
Tony DungyThere is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.
Winston ChurchillA false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
A. D. GordonSincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.
Kristen StewartPeople sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.
Marianne WilliamsonDon't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
PythagorasIt is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.
Sydney Thompson DobellIf it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonIf two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.
Torbjorn TannsjoWe'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.
William J. CaseyI think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.
Ehud OlmertWriting, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.
Jane JacobsThose who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
Rene MagritteWhere true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
Charles Caleb ColtonI must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.
Christie BrinkleyThe usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
George BerkeleyI believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false
Gerhard RichterIf a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.
Ludwig WittgensteinThe ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
Thomas Bailey AldrichFalse rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
Vladimir Lenin