False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which… — Theodor Adorno
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. — Louis Kronenberger
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for… — Saint Augustine
Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence. — Jules Feiffer
There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away… — P.G. Wodehouse
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to… — Jean de la Bruyere
Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding… — George Bernard Shaw
You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last.… — James Garner
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility. — Rumi
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. — John Keats
Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind. — William Cowper
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. — Charles Caleb Colton
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. — Joseph Conrad
An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage… — Jean Giraudoux
I will always love the false image I had of you. — Ashleigh Brilliant
His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon… — Thomas Jefferson
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. — Thomas A. Edison
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle… — Joseph Addison

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