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Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith. -- Saint Augustine
He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings. -- Homer
I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible. -- Matt Dillahunty
Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die. -- Richard Rohr
It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far. -- Keri Hilson
Those who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants. Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for every direction is indeed infinite. Those who desire the truly genuine Thing proceed of themselves with great intensity so as to progress in their sadhana. -- Anandamayi Ma
The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life. -- FKA twigs
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. -- Peter Dinklage
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. -- Benjamin Franklin
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. -- Pat Robertson
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
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
I know people who enjoy having 10 people running around and doing things for them. I don't. I feel awkward in such situations. It gives you a false sense of importance. -- Sonam Kapoor
I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things. -- Mary Hart
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run. -- Tony Judt
I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans. -- Alexa Chung
But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false. -- John Harvey Kellogg
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know. -- Sam Harris
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb. -- Robert Casey
I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things. -- Kurt Masur
I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing. -- Colm Feore
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. -- Bill Gates
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place. -- Lorrie Moore
False values begin with the worship of things. -- Susan Sontag
Any view of things that is not strange, is false. -- Neil Gaiman
When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition. -- Debasish Mridha
I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false -- Peter Joseph
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. -- John Dryden
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth. -- Thomas Browne
False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change. -- Kyle Cease
I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things. -- Benjamin Franklin
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.] -- Horace
To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved. -- Francis Chan
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. -- Abigail Adams
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. -- Thomas Hobbes
Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons -- Ron Paul
Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never! -- Cornelia Funke
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories. -- Mark Twain
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. -- Helen Keller
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. -- Charles Caleb Colton
...You know something, don't you?""I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.""Just answer the question.""True/false or multiple choice? -- Neal Shusterman
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things. -- James F. Cooper
We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity. -- J. C. Ryle
The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes. -- Sam Keen
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. -- Francis Bacon
The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being. -- Ashley Montagu
I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking. -- Jesse Eisenberg
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns) -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom. -- Lord Byron
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. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. -- Jonathan Swift
The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things. -- Isaac Watts

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