False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing… — Orson Scott Card
Cheap booze is a false economy. — Christopher Hitchens
the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us… — Alanis Morissette
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a… — Oscar Wilde
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you… — Og Mandino
All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the… — Nicole Krauss
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do… — Stephen Fry
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many… — Joe Haldeman
Would you have done that in his place? Would you have left him and gone on?" "Of course I would!" Halt replied immediately. But something… — John Flanagan
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that… — Gilles Deleuze
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate… — C.S. Lewis
Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who… — Gilles Deleuze
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Donâ€™t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,… — Oscar Wilde
I read anything thatâ€™s going to be interesting. But you donâ€™t know what it is until youâ€™ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the… — Terry Pratchett
But the cinephile is â€¦ a neurotic! (Thatâ€™s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and itâ€™s because they were neurotic that they… — Francois Truffaut
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Many a false step was made by standing still. — Tim Ferriss
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it… — Simone de Beauvoir
I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one… — Portia de Rossi

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