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False Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
- Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile…
- You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know…
- Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby…
- Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
- Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they…
- The religions we call false were once true.
- The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.
- The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
- Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea…
- If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when…
- ...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…
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and…
More False Quotes
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
- We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,… — Dan Aykroyd
- Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world… — Sai Baba
- An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often… — Russell Baker
- You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin
- I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip… — Alan Ball
- I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney… — Roseanne Barr
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget… — Ethel Barrymore
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow
- It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios.… — John Belushi
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce