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The occultist is brought into intelligent communication with the spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess, or any false impression they choose to impart...the demons seem permitted to do various wonders at their request. -- G. H. Pember
To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness. -- Jerome Frank
It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country. -- Muriel Lester
People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance. -- John Howard
Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel. -- John Gimlette
The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression -- Oscar Wilde
I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone. -- Rachel Brosnahan
When laying out a quote on deceit, one must not be bias by using the term him from a female nor her from a male. then they them self are giving a false impression! -- Michael S. McKinney
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions. -- Blaise Pascal
Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. -- George Eliot
The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Here too it's masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show"¦ I'd gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision. -- Carl von Clausewitz
It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives. -- Charles R. Swindoll
One of the remarkable things about being 19 is that you can break open a case of warm beer at midnight and still be wide-eyed and alert for your eight-a.m. class. And that gave me the false impression that my life would always be like that. -- David Letterman
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. -- Saul Bellow
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. -- John Ruskin
The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we're working on something unfalsifiable. -- Brian Greene
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. -- Edgar Degas
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have. -- Richard M. Weaver

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