Quotes About FALSE

Folks, talk is cheap. False promises are deceptive and talk and revolution isn't changing anyone's life.

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.

The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus.

The worst sense of security is a false one. It's hard for people to wrap their heads around the idea that those in charge - federal, state and local agencies - might be cheating the system. But, all too often, that is exactly what happens.

But she knew better than to trust the false hope of the holidays.

A horrible coma call'd living So now in this coma call'd living I view the bright phantoms of beauty; The false hollow phantoms of beauty

Democracy is just a false idol — a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

A hair divides what is false and true.

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Just before the start of Summer Half, in April 1883, a very minor event took place at Eton College, that venerable and illustrious English public school for boys. A sixteen-year-old pupil named Archer Fairfax returned form a three-month absence, caused by a fractured femur, to resume his education. Almost every word in the preceding sentence is false.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.

In love, anger is always false.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. Thus science seems to be at war with itself: when it most means to be objective, it finds itself plunged into subjectivity against its will. Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows that naive realism is false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

Even if (as I myself believe) almost all Hegel's doctrines are false, he still retains an importance which is not merely historical, as the best representative of a certain kind of philosophy which, in others, is less coherent and less comprehensive.

In relation to any political doctrine there are two questions to be asked: (1) Are its theoretical tenets true? (2) Is its practical policy likely to increase human happiness? For my part, I think the theoretical tenets of Communism are false, and I think its practical maxims are such as to produce an immeasurable increase of human misery.

On vultures:) ... those false but democratic mourners at every casual bier ...