False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False… — Paulo Coelho
There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are. — Brennan Manning
Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost. — Paul Bowles
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which… — Aristotle
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. — Ambrose Bierce
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's… — William James
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness. — John O'Donohue
Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them they're not experienced… — Rachel Cohn
You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To… — John O'Donohue
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he… — Jon Krakauer
Your questions are false if you already know the answer. — Jose Saramago
I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes. — Leonardo da Vinci
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father… — W. Somerset Maugham
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only… — Helen Keller
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop… — Roland Barthes
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue

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