Top 1200 False Assumptions Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and telling us what we should think and do, that there is little opportunity for our inner knowing to be heard. Instead we remain attached to our assumptions, dreaming of the fulfillment we believe they will bring.

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.

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

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.

The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

It's not an easy option. The essence of travel is letting go of habit and prejudice and relishing the unfamiliar. Food you've never eaten before, a language you've never spoken before, religion that mystifies, customs that confuse, politics that perplex, all question everyday assumptions about how you live your life.

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

If a marriage doesn't work, you can't do anything about it. I am not the kind who'll stick on under false pretences.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Mulayam Singh Yadav has deceived Muslims by making false promises for their welfare.

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

False perceptions are being created about me without an iota of proof.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.

The academic Left has a long history of taking the idea of 'false consciousness' seriously.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.