False Quotes

• Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Justice
  • Lies
  • False

• It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • People
  • Impression
  • Standards

• We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.

  

  William J. Casey
  • Program
  • False
  • Disinformation

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • True
  • Belief
  • Stability

• It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Success
  • False
  • Merit

• I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There's a false narrative that if you make a short film right after senior year, you'll be plucked out to make a feature length film, and the rest is history. I didn't do that.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • History
  • Success
  • Short Film

• That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Painting
  • Considered
  • Sculpture

• Just as thought experiments can't show that vitalism is true (or that it is false), they also can't show that dualism is true (or that it is false).

  

  Elliott Sober
  • True
  • False
  • Experiments

• The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Church
  • Believes
  • Punished

• True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

  

  Josh Billings
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • False

• “We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.”

  

  Arne Tiselius
  • World
  • True
  • Manipulation

• Photography is in some ways false just because it is so exact.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Photography
  • False
  • Exact

• If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • System
  • London
  • False

• False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

  

  Martin Luther
  • False
  • Preachers
  • Virgins

• True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • True
  • Error
  • Charged

• Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

  

  John Ruskin
  • False
  • Represents
  • Vacant

• I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Idea
  • Shallow

• False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God - Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia.

  

  Basil Pennington
  • God
  • Christ
  • Churches

• I think many of the statements in there are false.

  

  Andrew Fastow
  • False
  • Statements

• I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.

  

  Walter Schellenberg
  • False
  • Could
  • Himmler

• When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Love
  • Humiliation
  • Deserved

• False self, co-dependent self, unauthentic or public self.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Self
  • Codependent
  • Unauthentic

• There's been a false and negative distinction that's been made between joy and happiness. Unfortunately, the message we send to those both inside and outside the church is, "Seeking happiness is superficial and shallow. Go out and get it in the world, but you won't find happiness in God." But all people seek happiness, and because they do, we're basically telling them, "Stop seeking what God Himself wired you to seek." What we should be saying is, "Seek your happiness in the right place - in God Himself."

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Negative
  • False
  • Distinction

• It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • False
  • Dreaming
  • Perceptions

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