False Quotes
1931 quotes by 1326 authors
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A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.
— Pope Leo I
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. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is…
— Plato
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Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their…
— Barbara Pease
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that…
— Adyashanti
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What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a…
— Marie Forleo
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What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to…
— Gautama Buddha
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False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is…
— Basil Pennington
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Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not…
— Seneca the Younger
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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
— Thornton Wilder
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I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression of reality, with…
— Richard Kalvar
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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
— Simone Weil
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Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive…
— Bertrand Russell
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The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of…
— Joe Conason
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On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of…
— John Stuart Mill
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
— Paul D. Boyer
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By downplaying clear targets and frameworks, ... the Prime Minister is ignoring calls from UK companies who want a clear framework to operate within now.…
— Tony Juniper
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When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
— Joey Skaggs
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There is nothing new and nothing truthful in the false accusations against public officials make by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation today, ... The simple reality…
— Richard Blumenthal
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In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk.…
— Theodore J. Forstmann
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