False Quotes

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.

False modesty is better than none.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.

There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to characters in their novels. False modesty, faugh!

False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope.

False friends leave you in times of trouble.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.

False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.

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

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice.

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.