False Quotes

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In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the… — Carl Sagan
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. — Paulo Freire
Your burden is of false self-identificationsâ€”abandon them all. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit… — H. L. Mencken
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be… — Elwyn Brooks White
There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Of lies, false modesty is the most decent. — Nicolas Chamfort
Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out… — D. H. Lawrence
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand.… — Isaac D'Israeli
Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion. — Robert A. Heinlein
How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we… — Michel de Montaigne
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy. — William Shakespeare
Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods… — William James
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and… — Taylor Caldwell
Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you… — Eddie Van Halen
When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test… — Nate Mendel
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were… — Havelock Ellis

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