False Quotes
1931 quotes by 1326 authors
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Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon…
— Hugh B. Brown
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Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a…
— Stanislaw Lem
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The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact,…
— Glenn Greenwald
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More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which…
— Pope Francis
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Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse to share what…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within..
— Kabir
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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
— Kabir
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False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.
— Guru Nanak
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The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing…
— Richard M. Weaver
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How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around…
— Peter Sloterdijk
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The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.
— Evo Morales
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Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts.
— Asafa Powell
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It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously…
— Gerrit Smith
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Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it…
— Colson Whitehead
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Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people…
— Noam Chomsky
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There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's…
— Noam Chomsky
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This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not…
— Jean Baudrillard
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As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we say anything bad…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and…
— David A. Bednar
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