False Quotes

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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is… — Alexander Pope
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But… — Mother Jones
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are… — Polybius
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? — Frank Moore Colby
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes… — William Hazlitt
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? — Lucretius
Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually they are possessive… — Pope Benedict XVI
Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage - I am for… — Rajneesh
Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There… — Paul Robeson
If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the… — Tony Benn
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. — Seneca the Younger
In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for… — Baron d'Holbach
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false… — James Randi
Round numbers are always false. — Samuel Johnson
...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty… — Abraham Lincoln
We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a… — Cindy Sheehan
False hope is worse than despair. — Jonathan Kozol
It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's… — Elia Kazan
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized. — Ramana Maharshi

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