False Quotes

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The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random,… — Galway Kinnell
If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast… — Alex Jones
Dances without purpose have false starts and stops. — Hanya Holm
A false vision was better than none. — Martha Ostenso
Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is… — Stephen Jay Gould
Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part. — Mahmud Shabistari
A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state… — Dan Millman
Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false… — Herbert Marcuse
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. — Katherine Mansfield
When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were… — Josh Billings
There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think,… — Johnny Bench
'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is… — Stephen Jay Gould
With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen -… — Rajneesh
You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your… — Edgar Guest
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear,… — Samuel Johnson
Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be… — Rumi
Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false. — George Mikes
There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble. — Radhanath Swami
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with… — Francis Bacon

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