False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1269 authors

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything. — Guy Finley
Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom — Pope Benedict XVI
It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy. — John Ortberg
The problem with letting kids on Facebook is that they'll learn all kinds of false quotations. — Thomas Jefferson
Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are… — Samuel Johnson
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart
And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter… — Alberto Fujimori
Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity. — D. H. Lawrence
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. — Travis Walton
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. — Thomas Shadwell
We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact, the US is… — Dalia Mogahed
Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits — Lance Armstrong
There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them… — Eckhart Tolle
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that… — Thomas Jefferson
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false… — Henri Nouwen
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing… — John Stuart Mill
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is… — Simone Weil
Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory,… — Martin Luther
Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not… — Pope Benedict XVI

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