False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. — Maria Montessori
Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I… — Paul Crouch
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the… — Hirohito
Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. — William Wordsworth
For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense… — Timothy Zahn
Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than… — Sam Davis
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is… — Jean de la Bruyere
Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a… — William D. Hoard
False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks. — Alexander Herzen
And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that… — Greg Laurie
Then one day I realized that a false picture of the German camps had been created and that the problem of the concentration camps was… — Paul Rassinier
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment… — Mary Pipher
How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as… — Samuel Johnson
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form… — Terence McKenna
If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless. — Crystal Eastman
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own… — B. H. Liddell Hart
As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. — Ashley Jensen
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. — Mark Twain
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!] — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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