False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? — Jessamyn West
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they… — Nancy Cartwright
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art… — Nance O'Neil
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an… — Richard Powers
When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and… — Scott McClellan
When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true… — Huston Smith
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. — Doris Lessing
People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies. — Bennett Miller
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and… — Mary Gordon
If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something… — David K. Shipler
Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films… — Errol Morris
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive… — Andrew Weil
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. — Lawrence M. Krauss
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that… — Tony Judt
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as… — Tariq Ramadan
I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not… — Lois Lerner
I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to… — Dan Quisenberry
To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way. — K'naan
DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number --just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.… — Ambrose Bierce

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