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 MaslowThe statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawThat's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. Votes: 0
Colin Trevorrowbelief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production Votes: 0
Gilles DeleuzeFlattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness. Votes: 0
John Lancaster SpaldingConcern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertSelf esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise. Votes: 0
Condoleezza RiceToo great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldMost people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument. Votes: 0
Lois McMaster BujoldWhen we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaAny false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding. Votes: 0
Larry WallCrude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. Votes: 0
H. G. WellsPrejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination. Votes: 0
Joseph de MaistreA religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false. Votes: 0
P.D. OuspenskyHumility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldOr 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 SchellenbergThe candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false. Votes: 0
Robert BrowningFacts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. Votes: 0
Christoph WaltzFEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. Votes: 0
Neale Donald WalschI prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea. Votes: 0
Robert DoisneauAll separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one... Votes: 0
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajCharity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice. Votes: 0
Henry GeorgeAll religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious. Votes: 0
Ibn WarraqThere are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions. Votes: 0
Bill JamesHumor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierOver and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false. Votes: 0
Paul D. BoyerTruth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false. Votes: 0
Walter MartinFalse conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. Votes: 0
Horace MannIt is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research. Votes: 0
Roger WickerNo character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonWhen all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love. Votes: 0
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajA metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion. Votes: 0
Hermann von HelmholtzEvery generationâs breakthroughs are proven false by the next generationâs Technology Votes: 0
Dan BrownThe more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollTrue 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 YoungerFatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be ... Votes: 0
Pearl S. BuckLetters 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. LovecraftIn a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false. Votes: 0
Austin Osman SpareRealization 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 MaharajFalse as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them. Votes: 0
Thomas OtwayFor to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Votes: 0
John MiltonPhysical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway Votes: 0
Pravinee HurbungsEvery truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine. Votes: 0
K.P. YohannanTo be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleI revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. Votes: 0
Ellen GlasgowPlots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. Votes: 0
John DrydenThe longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth. Votes: 0
Benjamin WhichcoteFalse 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 LubbockMany have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciEnvy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciNo sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is! Votes: 0
Sheri S. TepperThe early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today. Votes: 0
Vance HavnerExcept in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). Votes: 0
Carl SaganJesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable. Votes: 0
John RobbinsA thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineThe happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. Votes: 0
Robert W. ServiceI was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane... Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovHow easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms! Votes: 0
William ShakespeareFlattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIf everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyFacts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up. Votes: 0
Sarah ChurchwellThe bigger question, rather than what's true and what's false, is what do we want? Votes: 0
Josh TickellThe time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods. Votes: 0
Luther BurbankWhen the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear. Votes: 0
Quintus Curtius RufusIf there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. Votes: 0
Billy SundayMarketers reinforce the idea - a false one - that celebrity is available to everyone. Votes: 0
Mal FletcherWhen you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others. Votes: 0
Randal MarlinIf there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. Votes: 0
Billy SundayIn the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaIt is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology). Votes: 0
George SorosA false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. Votes: 0
James ThurberActions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er." Votes: 0
Ramana MaharshiSooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. Votes: 0
George OrwellIf you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway Votes: 0
Mother TeresaThat which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Votes: 0
Paul ValeryFaith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding. Votes: 0
VoltaireAlthough God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true. Votes: 0
Ann CoulterThere 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 EhrenreichWise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise Votes: 0
Shiv KheraWhat 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 HobbesA false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law. Votes: 0
Roger WilliamsClosure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. Votes: 0
Stephen GroszLast night I dreamt that somebody loved me.No hope, no harm; just another false alarm Votes: 0
MorrisseyThis industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is. Votes: 0
Morris ChestnutLust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop. Votes: 0
Francis QuarlesFalse. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change. Votes: 0
Kyle CeaseTo worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell. Votes: 0
Thomas MertonWe are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaLast night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm Votes: 0
Steven MorrisseyMalice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation. Votes: 0
Philip MassingerThe sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice. Votes: 0
Rand PaulI want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy. Votes: 0
Douglas MasseyA lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Votes: 0
Isaac AsimovMy approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones. Votes: 0
George SorosA train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. Votes: 0
Joseph ConradNow that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics. Votes: 0
George SorosU.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. Votes: 0
Elliott AbramsFalse love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. Votes: 0
Walter RaleighWhen spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayThe criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. Votes: 0
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeThere is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs. Votes: 0
Wayne DyerWithout independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. Votes: 0
Elizabeth LoftusThings evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth. Votes: 0
Thomas BrowneI hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorDo not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. Votes: 0
Kent NerburnMind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it. Votes: 0
Matthew ArnoldTo establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false. Votes: 0
Stuart SutherlandSo false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire. Votes: 0
Samuel DanielIn true love you want your partner to be happy. In false love you want your partner. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoToday will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. Votes: 0
Og Mandinohis smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth ... Votes: 0
Rebecca WestIt is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd. Votes: 0
Terry EagletonTo multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting. Votes: 0
Peter HellerIt is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false. Votes: 0
Rene DescartesI never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom. Votes: 0
Robert DonatAn economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyBetter to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope. Votes: 0
Trudi CanavanSo the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie. Votes: 0
John DrydenKnowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part. Votes: 0
Mahmud ShabistariIn academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. Votes: 0
Michael IgnatieffI 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 LesterI am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet. Votes: 0
Walter MartinIf only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. Votes: 0
Katherine MansfieldI believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false. Votes: 0
Marianne MooreWas there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? Votes: 0
Mason CooleyWe must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both. Votes: 0
Tom RidgeThe hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinInnocent 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 GeertzReligion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. Votes: 0
William HazlittI think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. Votes: 0
Clifford GeertzI used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention. Votes: 0
Al PacinoLiberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones. Votes: 0
Alfred Whitney GriswoldPeople who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance. Votes: 0
John HowardIf something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyI can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them. Votes: 0
Pat RobertsonFalse history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. Votes: 0
Adrienne RichThe way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. Votes: 0
Fiona AppleIf I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic. Votes: 0
Jean RhysTo 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 would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false. Votes: 0
L. Ron HubbardThe first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. Votes: 0
LactantiusLove is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made. Votes: 0
OvidI know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. Votes: 0
George OrwellIf we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauGossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. Votes: 0
Frank A. ClarkWithout false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot. Votes: 0
Neil KinnockA man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonAs a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. Votes: 0
Ashley JensenIt's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop. Votes: 0
Natalie MassenetThere is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. Votes: 0
Francis BaconTo be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind. Votes: 0
E. Haldeman-JuliusFalse hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going. Votes: 0
Rob PayneTruth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false. Votes: 0
Anthony TrollopeYou might be a redneck if the highlight of your parties is when you flip out your false teeth. Votes: 0
Jeff FoxworthyWhat 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 LeninThat which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. Votes: 4 Paul Valery
Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics. Votes: 5 George Soros
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Votes: 2 George Haven Putnam
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know? Votes: 1 Alan Ball
Antivirus systems need to strike a balance between detecting all possible attacks without causing any false alarms. And while we try to improve on this all the time, there will never be a solution that is 100 percent perfect. Votes: 3 Mikko Hypponen
Path does not spam users. Invites on Path are never sent without a user's consent - any allegations to the contrary are false. Votes: 1 Dave Morin
Path does not spam users. Invites on Path are never sent without a user's consent - any allegations to the contrary are false. Votes: 1 Dave Morin
The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. Votes: 1 Charles Hodge
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. Votes: 3 Arthur Schopenhauer
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.] Votes: 3 Horace
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. Votes: 5 Igor Stravinsky
The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and never even know where the hurt comes from, and in all pictures now the famous people have already begun to look lost and lonely. Votes: 3 Robert Montgomery
A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief. Votes: 5 Pope Leo I
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. Votes: 3 William Kingdon Clifford
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. Votes: 3 Camille Claudel
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. Votes: 1 C. S. Lewis
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. Votes: 3 Kevin Mitnick
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort. Votes: 3 Christy Turlington
I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think. Votes: 3 Maya Angelou
Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence. Votes: 2 Jules Feiffer
Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear. Votes: 4 Zicheng Hong
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in. Votes: 3 Origen
Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions. Votes: 3 Shannon L. Alder
Many of the criticisms about McDonald's are false. We are keen to provide people with as much nutritional information as possible to help them manage their diets. Votes: 1 Charlie Bell
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom. Votes: 3 Nawal El Saadawi
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves. Votes: 1 William Gurnall
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves. Votes: 1 William Gurnall
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it. Votes: 1 David Harsanyi
My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations. Votes: 3 Laurie Graham
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them. Votes: 3 Lorna Luft
We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity. Votes: 3 William Butler Yeats
In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule. Votes: 3 Samantha Abeel
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom. Votes: 4 Jesse Ventura
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. Votes: 3 Benjamin Franklin
Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway. Votes: 4 Mother Teresa
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Votes: 1 Richard Burton
There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose. Votes: 3 Jack Nicklaus
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. Votes: 1 Agnes Repplier
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? Votes: 3 C. S. Lewis
As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163" Votes: 3 Michelle Richmond
Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised. Votes: 3 Kim Campbell
I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is. Votes: 3 Julie Delpy
To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life. Votes: 3 Mooji
My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. Votes: 3 Maurice Sendak
U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. Votes: 3 Elliott Abrams
The occultist is brought into intelligent communication with the spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess, or any false impression they choose to impart...the demons seem permitted to do various wonders at their request. Votes: 4 G. H. Pember
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions. Votes: 3 Blaise Pascal
People start talking about you and spreading false information, and it can really affect your spirit. So faith is very important to me. Votes: 4 Rochelle Aytes
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. Votes: 1 Carl von Clausewitz
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions. Votes: 3 Frances Wright
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. Votes: 1 Heraclitus
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps. Votes: 1 Martha Gellhorn
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. Votes: 3 George Bernard Shaw
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. Votes: 1 Mary Harris Jones
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. Votes: 1 Mary Harris Jones
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. Votes: 4 Adrienne Rich
Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. Votes: 3 Elizabeth Loftus
Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors. Votes: 1 Malcolm Gladwell
What's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after the next. Votes: 3 Joe Scarborough
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. Votes: 3 Jonathan Swift
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run. Votes: 3 Tony Judt
People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works. Votes: 2 Marcia Gay Harden
Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice. Votes: 4 Suzy Kassem
The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years. Votes: 3 John Ridley
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. Votes: 1 Billy Sunday
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. Votes: 1 Billy Sunday
The word of God is complete, and those who don't preach the word in its fullness are false teachers. Votes: 1 Monica Johnson
The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences. Votes: 3 Joe Wilson
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses. Votes: 4 H. L. Mencken
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning. Votes: 3 Anne-Marie Slaughter
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth. Votes: 1 Hesiod
Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence. Votes: 5 Lisa Kristine
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. Votes: 1 Walter Martin
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. Votes: 3 Noam Chomsky
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. Votes: 1 Joey Skaggs
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. Votes: 3 Joey Skaggs
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. Votes: 3 Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. Votes: 3 Nisargadatta Maharaj
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Votes: 1 Pope John Paul II
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Votes: 1 Pope John Paul II
Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America. Votes: 3 Frank Miller
I've heard rumors about myself that are true - and nobody likes that. But there's actually something very liberating when you hear a false rumor because you realize there's nothing you can do. People are going to say whatever they want - especially on chat boards. Votes: 1 Christian Borle
Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus. Votes: 4 Christopher Hitchens
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. Votes: 2 Eckhart Tolle
Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth. Votes: 3 Dick Thornburgh
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. Votes: 3 Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Votes: 3 William Jennings Bryan
Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had. Votes: 3 Walter Martin
The word of God is complete, and those who don't preach the word in its fullness are false teachers. Votes: 1 Monica Johnson
It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching. Votes: 1 Bill Bennett
It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching. Votes: 1 Bill Bennett
I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these? Votes: 3 Carol Burnett
It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far. Votes: 3 Keri Hilson
Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct. Votes: 3 Julian Huxley
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. Votes: 1 Carroll O'Connor
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. Votes: 2 F. H. Bradley
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth. Votes: 1 Hesiod
I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other. Votes: 3 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. Votes: 2 Heraclitus
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves. Votes: 1 William Gurnall
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing. Votes: 3 Walter Savage Landor
A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law. Votes: 3 Roger Williams
The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines like 'General Relativity still governing planetary orbits' or 'Phlogiston theory remains false'? By the time anything is solid science, it is no longer a breaking headline. Votes: 1 Eliezer Yudkowsky
I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that. Votes: 1 Joel Osteen