Fictitious Quotes

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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious,… — Russell Baker
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;… — Samuel Johnson
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. — James Madison
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend… — Paul Cezanne
The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on… — Nathan Farragut Twining
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the… — Auguste Comte
The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a… — Ernest K. Gann
This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is… — Nathan Farragut Twining
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the… — Edmund Crispin
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd.… — Christian Carion
It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one… — Thomas A. Edison
Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when… — Paul Feig
Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality. — Walter Lippmann
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our… — Alfred Korzybski
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the… — Thomas A. Edison
Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man;… — Jeremy Bentham
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. — Che Guevara
My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist… — Colleen McCullough

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