False Quotes

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It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions.… — Deb Caletti
Valkyrie patted Fletcherâ€™s arm. â€œDonâ€™t worry,â€ she said. â€œIf the bad man comes, Iâ€™ll protect you.â€ â€œIf the bad man comes,â€ Fletcher responded, â€œIâ€™ll bravely… — Derek Landy
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false… — Dante Alighieri
False humility is more insulting than open pride! — Brandon Mull
Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text. — Umberto Eco
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. — Aristotle
Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. — Rick Yancey
Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love… — Amy Winehouse
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding… — Isaac Asimov
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production — Gilles Deleuze
Weâ€™re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We donâ€™t believe in hard work when a false face and… — Scott Lynch
Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth is that every… — Joyce Meyer
When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The… — C. Terry Warner
Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he… — John Hodgman
The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first question… — Joe Haldeman
I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I… — Naguib Mahfouz
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds… — Benjamin Franklin
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life,"… — Paulo Freire
I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is… — Sylvia Plath

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