False Quotes
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A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.
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Feminism’s claim that it discovered rape is simply false.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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A hair divides what is false and true.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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Academic theology is false.
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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.
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.
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Sentences are not as such either true or false.
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Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
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False modesty is better than none.
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Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
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I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.
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Green's theorem is true. It's us that are false.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
