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Quotes About FALSE

Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.
~ John O'Donohue
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
~ John Owen
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
~ John Stuart Mill
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
~ John Stuart Mill
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.
~ John Stuart Mill
Only false values prevail, because everyone can assimilate them, counterfeit them (false thereby to the second degree). An idea that succeeds is necessarily a pseudo-idea.
~ Emil Cioran
Every time a social phenomenon is directly explained by a psychological phenomenon, we may rest assured that the explanation is false".
~ Émile Durkheim
Love, as I conceive it, is a purely subjective poem. In all that books tell us about it, there is nothing which is not at once false and true.
~ balzac honore de xv
There are other false prophets, in like manner so termed, because they do apply the sayings of the true prophets unto a false end and purpose.
~ bancroft richard ii
Fear, f-e-a-r, is: False Evidence Appearing Real
~ Bashar
Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
~ Peter Dinklage
You got a lot of fradulent rebels and revolutionaries who are really false prophets.
~ Prodigy
False Claims Act violators who self-report generally receive the same penalties and face the same damages as those who are caught. I think this makes very little sense.
~ Trent Franks
As you look at your fears head-on, you'll begin to see how much of what you fear is just False Evidence Appearing Real. When you act on this false evidence, you create chaos in your life.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
Immeasurably imperfect it was, but false the impression could not be, for she saw with the eyes made for seeing, and saw indeed what many men are too wise to see.
~ George MacDonald
Hate will sharpen observation, affording opportunity for many a shrewd guess, and the construction of clever and false theories, but will leave the observer blind to the whole.
~ George MacDonald
Beware of Goodreads quotations that come without a citation; they are often false.
~ George Orwell
The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
~ George Washington
Current idols are more subtle than ancient ones because today's false gods are often outside the field of religion. People, possessions, status, and self-aggrandizement are some of the most popular deities today. Beware of bowing down before these things. False gods never satisfy; instead, they stir up lust for more and more.
~ Sarah Young
In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.
~ Scott Walker
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.
~ Bertrand Russell
But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.
~ Anna Godbersen
I don't have time to think about the false controversy.
~ Susan Rice
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
~ Mason Cooley