False Quotes

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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. — M H Abrams
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth. — Henry David Thoreau
Iâ€™ve never been able to understand â€˜faithâ€™ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion… — Jubal
Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it. — Bill Parcells
I don't want to be a celebrity athlete. When you are, there's this pressure on you. It's like you have this halo over your head… — Shani Davis
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. — Sri Aurobindo
Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false. — P.D. James
All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to… — Ravi Zacharias
Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about… — August Sander
Speech at the Ministerial Conference in Boston (at books.google.com/books?id=LXkYAAAAYAAJ&dq=theodore%20parker%20boston%20kidnapping%20gannett&lr=&pg=PA167&ci=70,748,854,407&source=bookclip#v=onepage&q&f=false) — Ezra Stiles
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the… — Alfred the Great
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as… — Phineas Quimby
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false… — George Orwell
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false... — Rainer Maria Rilke
The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to… — John Verdon
A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can… — Ann Coulter
With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes… — Ann Coulter
With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to… — Glenn Reynolds
By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to… — Spencer W. Kimball
[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

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