False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. — Adrienne Rich
And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy… — Pat Robertson
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda… — Paul Robeson
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and… — Gary Ross
The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad… — Marco Rubio
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it,… — John Ruskin
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually… — Paul Ryan
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact. — Jerry Saltz
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without… — George Sand
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing… — Carlos Santana
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. — George Santayana
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy… — George Santayana
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. — William Shakespeare
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare
In a false quarrel there is no true valor. — William Shakespeare
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. — George Bernard Shaw
Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics. — George Soros

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