False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a… — William Ellery Channing
Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer.… — Hugo Chavez
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven… — Noam Chomsky
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. — Frank A. Clark
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery… — John Henrik Clarke
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of… — Camille Claudel
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. — Carl von Clausewitz
There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then… — Diablo Cody
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. — Fiona Apple
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as… — Thomas Aquinas
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him… — Gary Zukav
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent… — George Gaylord Simpson
Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the… — Alexander Pope

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