False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings. — Homer
Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell. — Aleister Crowley
Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your… — William P. Young
For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all: nothing false and possible is love (who's… — E E Cummings
He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between… — George R. R. Martin
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him.… — Ravi Zacharias
I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm — Elizabeth Wurtzel
To be taught to readâ€”what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught… — John Ruskin
I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. — Daphne du Maurier
Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century. — Christopher Hitchens
If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear… — Thomas Jefferson
In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial… — John Elder Robison
The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman… — C.S. Lewis
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true,… — Leonardo da Vinci
The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food… — Richard Rohr
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass… — Alan Paton
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should… — Brennan Manning
Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false picture and is… — Marc Bekoff
False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins. — Martin Luther

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