Falsity Quotes

41 Falsity quotes by 35 unique authors

We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be received and valued… — Brigham Young
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we… — Ken Kesey
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender… — James McGreevey
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. — Blaise Pascal
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. — Blaise Pascal
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements… — Jean Rostand
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. — George Santayana
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth… — Leo Tolstoy
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.… — John O'Donohue
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now… — Leo Tolstoy
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. — Honore de Balzac
All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory. — Karl Popper
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be… — George Orwell
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,… — Mark Twain
'Every friendship travels at some time through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the… — Andrew Guzaldo
The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other… — Robert Nozick

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