Quotes About FALSE

Would they defend free speech in murderous times? Or would they hold their tongues and accept that they must 'respect' views they knew to be false?

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.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on.

A hair divides what is false and true.

Fear is a false prophet and believes that what it fears is actually coming to pass. At night every trifling occurrence seems more terrible to the besieged, for on account of the darkness no man tells what he sees but always what he hears.

Once a rumour, however false, became the subject of common belief, it assumed the status of a political fact

For a consumer society thrives by stoking unquenchable desires into unsustainable cravings and fanning them with an inflated rage for rights. The restlessness it creates by providing false satisfactions and deadening true desires simultaneously fuels the economy and destroys happiness.

Anyone who offends me deserves to hear exactly how they trespassed—or needs to be lulled into a false sense of security before the sneak attack when they aren't paying attention.

You are arrogant and overstep your bounds," I told him, pointing my cleaned fork at him. "I try," he said with false modesty.

Verbal abuse: Words that attack or injure, that cause one to believe the false, or that speak falsely of one.

We're just as screwed up and brave and false and loyal and wrong and right as anyone else.

Este presentimiento resultaría cierto, aunque se basaba en premisas totalmente falsas.

We are not where we are, he finds, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out

But in general, it's just false that negative emotional experiences have a purging effect.

But false niceness can never and will never produce an authentic, deeply meaningful relationship, just like weeds won't magically produce zinnias.

An idolatrous heart will produce idol words, words that serve the idol that grips us.

Consciousness ("here" and "now") is not "false and misleading" because of language; consciousness is language, and nothing else, because it is false and misleading.

The conclusion is that the original assumption of ordering leads us into contradiction, and so that assumption must be false.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the power of doctrines — how support for a false dogma can become politically mandatory, and how overwhelming contrary evidence only makes such dogmas stronger and more extreme.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

The good which proceeds from a false basis (and such a case can happen in times of upheaval) is a very real evil for the entire society. It encourages the factious, not in this respect, that they search for the good, but rather because the deceitful appeal of that good delivers over to them virtuous men and makes them their accomplices.

One word is too often profanedFor me to profane it,One feeling too falsely disdainedFor thee to disdain it.

Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true

That was clear when certain directors and members of the F.B.I. and C.I.A. were presenting (later found to be found false) information to impeach Trump.