False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them. — Pat Robertson
No 'mise en scÃ¨ne' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en… — Andrei Tarkovsky
A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts. — Isaac Asimov
When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley… — Claude Bernard
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true… — Gottfried Leibniz
The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth… — Richard Rosen
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of… — Theodor Adorno
Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false… — Herbert Marcuse
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing… — Theodor Adorno
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian… — Henry Flynt
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention. — Peter Greenaway
The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of… — Virgil Goode
I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can… — Tricia Helfer
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions. — Bill James
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the… — Anthony Kennedy
They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity. — Ray Davies
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. — Alex Kapranos
In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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