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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
— Benjamin Franklin
We are betrayed by what is false within
— George Meredith
I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy.
— Douglas Massey
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
— Thomas Love Peacock
Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.
— Pat Buchanan
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.
— Marianne Moore
We entered an era of false alarms.
— Sara Novic
Do we throw off the false 'cloak' at a party, or do we merely put on an untruthful yellow dress?
— Jeremy Hawthorn
There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
— Frederick Lenz
A conversation began to take shape between us. A conversation that happened in unspoken words, in false words, in knowing glances.
— Nadia Hashimi
The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
— C.S. Lewis
I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.
— Rebecca McNutt
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
— Arthur Miller
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
— George Soros
That's remarkable too, she thought; whenever we make a noble statement it sounds false in our ears.
— Michael Gruber
When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom.
— Tedd Tripp
Get me a real chair
— Jennifer A. Nielsen
False humility is more insulting than open pride!
— Brandon Mull
Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life.
— Shannon L. Alder
If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.
— Paul Dirac
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.
— John Stuart Mill
It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
— J.C. Ryle
There is more hope for an opinion than for a false fact.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There are male escorts that look like you? I thought all those commercials were false advertisement.
— Anonymous
A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy
— Francis Bacon
Place your allegiance and respect in what is everlasting and real, not in the transitory and false.
— Bryant McGill
Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Klaus had not told his siblings about the book, because he didn't want to give them false hope.
— Lemony Snicket
A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor.
— Vladimir Nabokov
A part of me so desperately wanted to believe it was possible, but the other part of me knew that holding on to false hope can be a dangerous thing.
— Autumn Doughton
Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
4. If you push yourself hard in the direction of freedom, compassion, and excellence, you will recover.
True/False — Kiese Laymon
True/False — Kiese Laymon
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
— Thomas A. Edison
Being lost isn't the same as being nowhere. Being lost is worse because there's the false hope that you might be found.
— Paul Tremblay
False words do not bring forth fruit.
— Sophocles
We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
— Tom Ridge
But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false.
— Leo Tolstoy
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
— Dan Aykroyd
U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.
— Elliott Abrams
A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.
— Georg Cantor
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.
— Maria Montessori
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
— John Stuart Mill
Hold on to the reins of Love and don't be afraid.
Hold on to the real behind the false and don't be
afraid. — Rumi
Hold on to the real behind the false and don't be
afraid. — Rumi
A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart.
— Anthony Liccione
Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.
— Stephen Grosz
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
— Henry Flynt
When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive.
— Lissa Rankin
Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
— Aleister Crowley
People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.
— Marianne Williamson
The most important and most difficult thing that you can change is your fixed false beliefs.
— Debasish Mridha
I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see their all just hiding behind false truths. — Nikki Rowe
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see their all just hiding behind false truths. — Nikki Rowe
It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information,
— Ted Olson
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
to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. — Charles Caleb Colton
If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was "false," the best thing he could say is that it was "interesting.
— Dexter Palmer
One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
I'm trying to untangle the truth from the false from assumptions from the postulations but run-on sentences are twisting around my throat.
— Tahereh Mafi
Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.
— Thomas C. Foster
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
— George Eliot
Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.
— Victor Hugo
Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false name.
— G. Willow Wilson
Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
— Soren Kierkegaard
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
— Pierre Bayle
The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.
— Jesse Eisenberg
Moving on was going to require leaving the woods and getting a friend set that didn't have gray hairs, hip replacements and a few false teeth.
— Rebecca Brooks
When you venture into an unexplored territory, you can prove all previously held beliefs false.
— Sipendr
False love is just wanting someone else, but true love is wanting someone else to be happy.
— Menna Van Praag
Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
— George Soros
The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.
— Noel Whittaker
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
— Sam Harris
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
— Jane Pauley
Since it is difficult to distinguish true prophets from false, it is as well to regard all prophets with suspicion
— Primo Levi
Sometimes I want the friendship of a man but other times I only want his passion. Friendship can be false; passion never lies.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.
— Thomas Merton
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
— Charles Olson
Let us go somewhere where we can do some genuine, blackguard, poverty-stricken drinking, with no false gingerbread glitter thrown over everything!
— William Gibson
False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.
— Nadia Boulanger