False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values… — Steven Pinker
Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the… — P.D. James
Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the… — Albert Camus
A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error. — Rene Daumal
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of… — Fernando Pessoa
Any view of things that is not strange, is false. — Neil Gaiman
The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false. — Philip Reeve
The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with… — David Sedaris
You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself. — Isaac Asimov
My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'. — Charlaine Harris
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer… — Pascal Mercier
Everybody knows that orthopedic science provides beautiful false noses for people who have lost their noses naturally or as a result of an operation. — Gaston Leroux
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and… — Erich Fromm
That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay… — Bruno Schulz
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false… — J.R.R. Tolkien
False fears are a plague, a modern plague! — Michael Crichton
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses. — Janet Frame

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