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Quotes About FALSE

The nature of such controversies is excellently expressed, by St. Paul, in the warning and precept, that he giveth concerning the same, Devita profanas vocum novitates, et oppositiones falsi nominis scientiae.
~ Francis Bacon
Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its existence to be immortalized by a writing self that is incapable of performing its actions without mixing our essence with what is false.
~ Frank Bidart
He hears false power in the preacher's voice, sees outsiders pretending. Old fool, he thinks, new fools are here to take your place.
~ breece d'j pancake
The false society of men— —for earthly greatness All heavenly comforts rarefies to air.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life.
~ Henry Miller
The poverty of language, which is to say the poverty of man's imagination or the poverty of his inner life, has created an ambivalence which is absolutely false.
~ Henry Miller
People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.
~ Tim Scott
It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.
~ Bill Bennett
t takes great courage to stand up against your fixed, false beliefs.
~ Debasish Mridha
3. Next (another good principle from Bede), "When you get a response, check it out." Check it out with friends, with mentors. Talk about it. This, says Bede, is a classic principle of guidance: Test the guidance. Real guidance will stand up to sustained testing. False guidance—which is usually just our own will trying to have its way—will not stand up to ongoing scrutiny.
~ Stephen Cope
If I have learned anything in my time among you, it is this: true honor lives not in the skill of weapons or the strength of arms, but in virtue. Skill fades and strength fails; virtue alone remains. Therefore, let us put off all that is false. Let us prefer instead the valor of virtue, and the glory of right.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
the law says there's no such thing as a false opinion.
~ Steve Brewer
I think that the Information Age is great, but there's a downside to it obviously as well, and it's that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it's sad that so many people will believe it.
~ Josh Hopkins
madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
~ Michel Foucault
human beings have a great capacity for sticking to false beliefs with great passion and tenacity
~ Bruce H. Lipton
You have just broken one of the cardinal rules. One does not contradict a member of the French royal family, no matter how ridiculous or patently false their utterances may be.
~ C.S. Harris
There is child abuse, and there are such things as repressed memories. But there are also such things as false memories and confabulations, and they are not rare at all. Misrememberings are the rule, not the exception. They occur all the time. They occur even in cases where the subject is absolutely confident - even when the memory is a seemingly unforgettable flashbulb, one of those metaphorical mental photographs.
~ Carl Sagan
Îi l?sase s? le înl?nÈ›uie de el cu propriile mâini, s? se legene în iluzii de m?rire È™i în l?comie, s? devin? sclavi, dependenÈ›i de false speranÈ›e È™i dorinÈ›e nebuneÈ™ti.
~ Terry Brooks
As so often in neurotic phenomena—or is it always?—we find that the patient's reasoning, conscious or unconscious, is flawless, but rests on false premises.
~ Karen Horney
Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.
~ Karen Maitland
Many a man thinks he has given proof of wisdom when he says, "There is nothing new under the sun." There is nothing more false. Modern science shows that nothing is stationary, that in society, just as in external nature, a continuous development is discoverable.
~ Karl Kautsky
An argument which appeals to the fact that we possess knowledge or that we can learn from experience, and which concludes from this fact that knowledge or learning from experience must be possible, and further, that every theory which entails the impossibility of knowledge, or of learning from experience, must be false, may be called a 'transcendental argument'.
~ Karl Popper
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.
~ Karl Von Clausewitz
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.
~ Kate Atkinson