Top 1200 False Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think
My charges false and all too rashly made.
The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.
The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.
Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.
The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.
Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.
When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information.
Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.
I have been informed that he has started false allegations regarding myself and the cause of my illness. It angers me to see that my own father would stoop to such a level.
. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.
I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm
You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.
I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.
If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?
They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.
With music you spend so much time standing on stage in front of an audience you get a false sense of your own importance. It's worth keeping that in check.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.
Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.
How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.
We will not try to out-Ukip Ukip. Labour is not going to offer false solutions, such as leaving Europe.
In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.
You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. It's a false choice, today more than ever.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.
You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.
The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments.
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
From what it seems like in my follower base, they have these bad misconceptions about China, and some of them are true and some are false.
