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Quotes About FALSE

Antivirus systems need to strike a balance between detecting all possible attacks without causing any false alarms. And while we try to improve on this all the time, there will never be a solution that is 100 percent perfect.
~ Mikko Hypponen
In the digital age, it is easier than ever to publish false information, which is quickly shared and taken to be true - as we often see in emergency situations, when news is breaking in real time.
~ Katharine Viner
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
To the thief, everyone's a crook. To the liar, everyone's a fraud. The curse of all sin is the mirror of false perception it traps us in.
~ Richard Paul Evans
INFORMATION: as used in mathematical information theory, this denotes the amount of unpredictability in a message; information is, roughly, what you do not expect to hear. In this sense, information may be true or false, but is always a small surprise. Resistance to new information measures the degree of Fundamentalism in a culture, a sub-culture, or an individual.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
To summarize: CSICOP published a scientifically false report. They blocked all attempts by a member of their own Executive Council to inform members that the report was false. When their own selected referees agreed the report was false, they suppressed the referees' report. This went on over a period of four years (1977-1981) and if bungling explains the beginning of it, Rawlins's term cover-up certainly does not seem too strong for what followed.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
In short, to claim that all these theories have been proven false appears more like a propagandistic assertion than a neutral factual observation. The issue is still open, except in the minds of those who wish it were not open.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
And if at whiles the bubble, blown too thin, Seem nigh on bursting,—if you nearly see The real world through the false,—what do you see? Is the old so ruined? You find you 're in a flock O' the youthful, earnest, passionate—genius, beauty, Rank and wealth also, if you care for these: And all depose their natural rights, hail you, (That 's me, sir) as their mate and yoke-fellow, Participate in Sludgehood
~ Robert Browning
There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I've chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.
~ Kim Harrison
There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.
~ Pope Paul V
The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?
~ Samuel Richardson
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
~ Dan Simmons
political, or ethnic narrative is ipso facto false. Social scientists have described such theories as having a "self-sealing quality" that makes them "particularly immune to challenge.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
We could wear disguises," said Frightening. Aurora nodded quickly. "Like a false beard. I've always wanted to wear a false beard." Vex frowned. "But you're a woman." "Exactly. They'd never suspect it was me.
~ Derek Landy
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
~ Bernard DeVoto
Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
~ Paul D. Boyer
There's no weakness as great as false strength.
~ Stefan Molyneux
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.
~ Winston Churchill
almost automatic response: "That's just a senseless obsession. It's a false message. I'm going to focus my attention on something else." At this point, the automatic transmission in your brain begins to start working properly again.
~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz