False Quotes

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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. — Frederick Douglass
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived… — Jonathan Edwards
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. — Albert Einstein
The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false. — Jesse Eisenberg
I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it. — Robert Emmet
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the… — Brian Eno
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these… — Henry Fielding
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to… — Tom Hanks
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty… — Sam Harris
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms. — Damien Hirst
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. — Christopher Hitchens
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in… — Christopher Hitchens
We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let's stop thinking that there's only… — Francois Hollande
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or… — Thomas Huxley
Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit… — Naveen Jain
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred… — Samuel Johnson
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. — Dean Kamen

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