Quotes of False - somelinesforyou

“ The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ”

- Confucius

“ Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. ”

- Bible

“ Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. ”

- Louis Kronenberger

“ The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. ”

- John Keats

“ He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. ”

- John Ruskin

“ HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear. ”

- John Milton

“ We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead. ”

- William Markiewicz

“ False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. ”

- Adrienne Rich

“ Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah. ”

- Richard Bach

“ If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. ”

- William A. Sunday

“ No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false. ”

- P. D. James

“ Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. ”

- George Meredith

“ Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings. ”

- John Dryden

“ Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. ”

- Marquis de Sade

“ Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct. ”

- Julian S. Huxley

“ The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. ”

- Sidney J. Harris

“ Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ”

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

“ There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ What is true is true, and what is false is false… ”

- Emanuel Swedenborg

“ A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. ”

- Saul Bellow

“ It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security. ”

- Agnetha Faltskog

“ Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ”

- William Shakespeare
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