Falseness Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.
— Petr Skrabanek
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If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.
— Piero Ferrucci
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
— Abraham Verghese
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How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream…
— Alfred de Musset
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often…
— Frantz Fanon
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little…
— Charles Darwin
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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize…
— John Ruskin
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Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing…
— Tony Kushner
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The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands…
— Mario Puzo
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I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally…
— Salman Rushdie
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The first step to truth starts when you accept and disclose your actual being, behaving like a goddess without being a goddess is bound to…
— Senoraroy
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If only you could see my dark side. But my smile is so bright it hides the falseness of the light.
— Jade
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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
— Jessamyn West
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Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair.
— Danish Proverb
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Let us be honest:) I'd rather have my messy wild hair than your face, your falseness and your split personalities anytime. So don't even bother…
— Leah
Who Wrote These Falseness Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Falseness Quotes as follows: