False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine. — K.P. Yohannan
There is no greater misery than false joys. — Bernard of Clairvaux
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of… — Robert Coover
I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others? — Edward Abbey
Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. ... The common and continual… — George Washington
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be… — Thomas Paine
Thereâ€™s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. Weâ€™re in no… — Isaac Asimov
The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and… — George W. S. Trow
We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves… — R.K. Narayan
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with… — Joan Didion
Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the… — Constantin Stanislavski
Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed… — Michel Foucault
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction,… — Hannah Arendt
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. — Horace
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed. — Livy
It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. — Konrad Zuse
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… — Blaise Pascal
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? — William Shakespeare
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims. — Wesley Clark
I don't have time to think about the false controversy, — Susan Rice

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