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Quotes About FALSE

Bubbly is bogus.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~ Snow is false purity.
It is a false compliance with the multitude to raise in them emotions which they wish, when these are not emotions which they ought, to feel." "Whoever
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Hollywood now produces false entertainment: unmitigated violence on the screen; snickering, laughter in the audience.
~ John Cage
No sooner are some false prophets put down than others pop up in all directions.
~ John Calvin
Where lovers frequently change the object of their affections one may be reasonably sure to find that they are inspired by a false kind of love.
~ JOHN DANIEL BARRY
A fake and false one, cannot stay in front of reality and truth; it collapses naturally.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
For a sober and conscious figure, neutral and fair defeat becomes exceptional dignity and pride than a false and fake victory.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The killer kills in a minute; whereas, the executor of false happiness or fake hopes stays killing you every moment of every day; it is the utmost barbarism.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Beautiful writing becomes beautiful when it loses its harmony and has the desperate power of the ugly. And characters? I feel they are false when they exhibit clear coherence and I become passionate about them when they say one thing and do another.
~ Elena Ferrante
designed to fill the interstices of constitutional text."43 Thus is born, out of false linguistic association, a whole new field of legal inquiry.
~ Antonin Scalia
The bigger the fake a person is , the larger the circle s/he makes around oneself of people who are only false friends.
~ Anuj Somany
The house of fame, he thought, is built on melting ice, not steel, and rumbles ever with a sound of rumors, while the goddess of fame is as false and capricious as her sister—Fortune.
~ Anya Seton
As Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, writes, "Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information." And even when the information is not false, the problem is "that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack.
~ Arianna Huffington
Nothing human's not a broth of false and true.
~ Frederick Buechner
The lie of the ideal has till now been the curse on reality; on its account humanity itself has become fake and false right down to its deepest instincts - to the point of worshipping values opposite to the only ones which would guarantee it a flourishing, a future, the exaled right to a future.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If, as Gibbon says, nothing but time - though a long time- is required for a world to perish; so nothing but time -though still more time- is required for a false idea to be destroyed in Germany.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
But I suffer and have suffered with them: prisoners are they unto me, and stigmatised ones. He whom they call Saviour put them in fetters:— In fetters of false values and fatuous words! Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A man who makes himself a god must hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked. But God can become a child and talk in parables and never lose His Divinity.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
~ Khalil Gibran
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
~ Alexander the Great
Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.
~ Oliver Tambo
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek