False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. — C.S. Lewis
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools… — Jonathan Swift
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away. — Winston Churchill
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells… — Khalil Gibran
In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified… — Cyril Connolly
Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal… — Deepak Chopra
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false… — Marquis de Sade
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. — Plato
Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we… — Sharon Salzberg
The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth,… — Gautama Buddha
This is something I consider Enlightenment to be - and that is to give intellectual or spiritual understanding and to be free of ignorance, false… — Jane Seymour
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. — Sallust
Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and… — Marlena De Blasi
Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena — Gautama Buddha
All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious. — Ibn Warraq
Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free, when there were… — Michael Beckwith
The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the… — Jeff Sharlet
In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a false opinion for… — Ignatius of Antioch

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