False Quotes

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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. — Charles Hodge
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of… — N. Scott Momaday
We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us… — Malcolm X
Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is… — George Soros
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones. — George Soros
Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. — Theodor Adorno
I guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie… — Paul Thomas Anderson
O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing… — Rabindranath Tagore
No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive. — Emile M. Cioran
All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were… — Alanis Morissette
One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things… — Francis Crick
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because… — Samuel Johnson
[Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that by nature we are… — John Bunyan
God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that… — Philip Yancey
You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they've already heard. — Stephen Colbert
You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I… — Pat Robertson
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a person does not know the doctrines of the Christian faith, he can easily be captured by false religions. — Warren W. Wiersbe

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