False Quotes
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Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.
Brock Chisholm
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In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.
Thomas Aquinas
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
John Milton
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The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
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There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.
Ann Bridge
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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
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True words seem false.
Lao Tzu
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I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.
Jane Austen
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It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.
Martin Luther
