Top 1200 False Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.
Never place a time limit on the healing. That is dictating to the spiritual intelligence that does its perfect work when it is not impeded by your questions and false beliefs.
The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing that for years. They’re called campaign promises.
One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.
It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.
...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.
Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.
Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
The trumpeting of false claims that are beneficial to Biden and other Democrats while ignoring the achievements of Trump and Republicans is typical for many media corporations.
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible.
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.
Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions.
There's a crazy, false notion that audiences are not patient or will not watch a story, that you have to put in a scare every ten minutes. But I always thought that was insane.
False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.
The fight that needs to be won is over that false pride before you can discover the vulnerability that allows you to unlock all the good stuff that does actually make you attractive, hopefully.
One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.
Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
Many of the criticisms about McDonald's are false. We are keen to provide people with as much nutritional information as possible to help them manage their diets.
You may charge me with murder--or want of sense--
(We are all of us weak at times):
But the slightest approach to a false pretence
Was never among my crimes!
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.
I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
He was always brilliant, but when Pep Guardiola started to use him as a 'false' No. 9, he got even better. It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.
I think, in history, we often see a false representation of women. The men are always the successors and, supposedly, of their own merit, which I don't believe to be to true.
What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.
The word of God is complete, and those who don't preach the word in its fullness are false teachers.
There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.
I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.
But there are realities governing what they can do. And Ukraine cannot live with the false image that somehow or another the West will come and rescue her. It's not going to happen.
The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?
You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts.
The information on a baby born to Vladimir Putin is false. I am going to ask people who have money to organize a contest on the best media rumor.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights.
Do not try to be what you are not, be what you are. The Universe has a built in truth recognizer, what ever is false about you, it will expose to light, either through you or others, pay attention.
Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.
I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.
