False Quotes

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It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe… — Jonathan Swift
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth. — Thomas Browne
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. — Charles Caleb Colton
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. — George Santayana
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing. — Walter Savage Landor
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one… — Judith Martin
Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having… — Billy Graham
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. — Ellen Glasgow
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future;… — Francesco Guicciardini
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good… — Paul Tillich
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an… — Susan Sontag
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social… — Lord Acton
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be… — Horace Mann
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the… — Martin Amis
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and… — Phyllis McGinley
Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making… — Mehmet Oz
... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find… — Henry de Montherlant
I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed… — Kurt Masur
The false separation between living and giving must end. — Simon Mainwaring

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