False Quotes

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False hope really makes you cynical. — Bill Maher
The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous… — Swami Vivekananda
Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning… — Timothy Gallwey
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She… — Gail Sheehy
God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service,… — Philo
If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else. — Rajneesh
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious,… — William Duncan Silkworth
We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and… — Ingmar Bergman
You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair… — Richard Carrier
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far,… — John Donne
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what… — William Moulton Marston
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn. — Bernard DeVoto
One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one… — David Hawkins
Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors... — Spencer W. Kimball
Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem… — Konrad Zuse
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower… — Charles Darwin
It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics… — Richard Dawkins
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will invoke the same… — Jeff Schweitzer
Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was… — Peter Kreeft

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