False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

How dangerous can false reasoning prove! — Sophocles
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it… — Blaise Pascal
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air. — Thomas Love Peacock
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike,… — Philip James Bailey
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. — Edgar Degas
Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. — Georges Braque
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with… — Hesiod
Believe that story false that ought not to be true. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without… — Joseph Joubert
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. — Denis Diderot
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired.… — Ramana Maharshi
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. — Thomas Hobbes
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs. — Ludwig von Mises
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires. — Democritus
Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth… — Sathya Sai Baba
The whole is the false. — Theodor Adorno
It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other… — Ramakrishna
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection. — Vladimir Horowitz
However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or… — Joshua Reynolds
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment… — Philip Sidney

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