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All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain
Ring out the false, ring in the true. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. -- William Shakespeare
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. -- George Bernard Shaw
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. -- Rumi
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. -- Plato
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. -- William Shakespeare
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. -- Frederick Douglass
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. -- William Shakespeare
I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it. -- Robert Emmet
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. -- Camille Claudel
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. -- Isaac Newton
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. -- Thomas Aquinas
I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.' -- Scott Walker
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised. -- James A. Forbes
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. -- Richard Cecil
Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do. -- Billy Graham
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? -- George Sand
I've heard rumors about myself that are true - and nobody likes that. But there's actually something very liberating when you hear a false rumor because you realize there's nothing you can do. People are going to say whatever they want - especially on chat boards. -- Christian Borle
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. -- Blaise Pascal
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. -- Michelle Obama
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Curse false-hand-holding boys! -- Lauren Myracle
Academic theology is false. -- Alexander Schmemann
Affection! Affection is false. -- Elizabeth I
True words seem false. -- Laozi
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.] -- Horace
False expectations take away joy. -- Sandra Bullock
The whole is the false. -- Theodor Adorno
What is false about hope? -- Mitch Albom
False love is only blinder. -- George Farquhar
False shame only is harmful. -- Livy
Round numbers are always false. -- Samuel Johnson
False fancy brings real misery. -- Friedrich Schiller
False as the fowler's artful snare. -- Tobias Smollett
How dangerous can false reasoning prove! -- Sophocles
Identity is invariably false to facts. -- Alfred Korzybski
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. -- John Milton
Renunciation means death of false ego. -- Radhanath Swami
False hope really makes you cynical. -- Bill Maher
In love, anger is always false. -- Publilius Syrus
False modesty is better than none. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Cheap booze is a false economy. -- Christopher Hitchens
A false tale often betrays itself. -- Aesop
Neuter discourse is a false idol. -- Richard M. Weaver
Damn all false dichotomies to hell -- D. A. Carson
False hope is worse than despair. -- Jonathan Kozol
To the devil with false modesty. -- Stephen King
Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic. -- Jane Austen
False hopes are more dangerous than fears. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all! -- William Shakespeare
Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers. -- William Shakespeare
False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc. -- Billy Donovan
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable. -- Robert Bresson
The thunder of false modesty was deafening. -- Sebastian Faulks
All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain
I don't do interviews under false pretenses. -- Tom Stoppard
I'm not living under false delusions myself. -- Rush Limbaugh
I'm not living under false delusions myself. -- Rush Limbaugh
Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising -- Amy Harmon
Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted. -- John Green
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. -- David Mitchell
A false vision was better than none. -- Martha Ostenso
False hopes are more dangerous than fears. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
God (in His mercy) accepts false coin. -- Rumi
We need to mock false gods publicly. -- Robert Barron
False praise is worse than no praise. -- Felix Dennis
Peace without truth is a false peace. -- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
False words do not bring forth fruit. -- Sophocles
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected. -- William Penn
False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse. -- Winston Smith
Harsh reality is always better than false hope. -- Julian Fellowes
There's no weakness as great as false strength. -- Stefan Molyneux
False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins. -- Martin Luther
The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false. -- Laozi
No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. -- Chrissie Hynde
False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot. -- Nadia Boulanger
False humility is more insulting than open pride! -- Brandon Mull
False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible. -- Guy Finley
Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind. -- William Cowper
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. -- Doris Lessing
Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard. -- Mason Cooley
Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends -- Fraser Young
Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. -- E. O. Wilson
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds. -- Horace
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. -- William Rounseville Alger
The best apology against false accusers is silence. -- John Milton
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. -- William Rounseville Alger
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. -- Thornton Wilder
Dances without purpose have false starts and stops. -- Hanya Holm
Propositions are true or false. Images are not. -- Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct. -- Julian Huxley
The religions we call false were once true. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no greater misery than false joys. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Truth is that which cannot be proved false. -- Dick Morris
Many a false step is made standing still. -- Patti LaBelle
TV has created a kind of false collectivity. -- Adrienne Rich
Of lies, false modesty is the most decent. -- Nicolas Chamfort
False friends leave you in times of trouble. -- Aesop
Fear appears from a false vision of reality. -- Bokar Rinpoche
Not one false man but doth uncountable evil. -- Thomas Carlyle
False fears are a plague, a modern plague! -- Michael Crichton
My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'. -- Charlaine Harris
A hair divides what is false and true. -- Omar Khayyam
False praise is always confined to the great. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
False values begin with the worship of things. -- Susan Sontag
OK, whatever, I was taking out false loans -- Joe
We are betrayed by what is false within -- George Meredith
Display is as false as it is costly. -- Benjamin Franklin
False hope is nicer than no hope at all. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies. -- Errol Morris
The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society. -- Ezra Taft Benson
True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. -- C. S. Lewis
In a false quarrel there is no true valor. -- William Shakespeare
False hope is better than no hope at all. -- Lois Greiman

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