False Ideas Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent…
— Karl Popper
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Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and…
— Laozi
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Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
— Rene Magritte
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...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a…
— William D. Hoard
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of…
— Jack Kornfield
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There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily…
— D. Patrick Miller
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Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the…
— Michael Ignatieff
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True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective…
— Walter Lippmann
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What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty…
— Henry Ford
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Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous…
— H.G. Wells
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Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our…
— Donald Miller
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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
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In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
— Michael Ignatieff
Who Wrote These False Ideas Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 False Ideas Quotes as follows: