It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever realities there are around us, and which were meant by Heaven to be the spirit’s joy and nutriment. To the untrue man, the whole universe ...
For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
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.
In the specific case of the use of the term “false memory” to describe errors in details in laboratory tasks (e.g., in word-learning tasks), the media and public are set up all too easily to interpret such research as relevant to “false memorie...
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be —is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
