False Quotes
1931 quotes by 1326 authors
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Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...
— C.S. Lewis
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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.
— Rajneesh
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FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a…
— Frederick The Great
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I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived…
— Ernest Becker
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
— F. H. Bradley
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,…
— John Stuart Mill
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It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent…
— Karl Popper
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
— Horace Mann
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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
— Kent Nerburn
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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is…
— Rajneesh
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I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act possible.…
— Rajneesh
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True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it…
— Guy Finley
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always…
— James Bryant Conant
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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
— Paul Valery
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There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
— Bruce R. McConkie
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A hair divides what is false and true.
— Omar Khayyam
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