Quotes of: False-modesty Keyword

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. - MATTHEW 7:15

Terrible Lies

You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

Tribute

Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.

A Woman's Worth

...I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Russell Baker

How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.

False Memory

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

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

Peter Greenaway

Just because you can't explain something doesn't make it false; just because you can explain something doesn't make it true.

Russell Eric Dobda

The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.

Rudolf Hiferding

In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.

Simon Greenleaf

The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false.

Swami Dhyan Giten

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

Sam Harris

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Sally Phillips

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

K'naan

When I capture my thoughts and compare them to the truth of God’s Word, I often find they are false, deceptive, or destructive.

Lori Hatcher

The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

Laura Prepon

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Matthew Arnold

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

M. H. Abrams

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Martin Buber