False Quotes

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Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of your… — Denise Morrison
Never place a time limit on the healing. That is dictating to the spiritual intelligence that does its perfect work when it is not impeded… — Raymond Charles Barker
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will… — Sun Tzu
If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life… — Seneca the Younger
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false… — Hannah Arendt
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to… — C. D. Broad
...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and my… — Jerry Fodor
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the… — Thomas Merton
All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties… — Meher Baba
Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because… — Cesare Beccaria
I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible. — Matt Dillahunty
Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning. — Polycarp
Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that… — Simon Cowell
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet… — Henry David Thoreau
False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken… — Samuel Johnson
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of… — George Bernard Shaw
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a… — H. L. Mencken
Many a false step is made standing still. — Patti LaBelle
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. — John Ruskin

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