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.
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.
We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.
We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.
When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.
The Jackal: [disguised as Per Lundquist] Goodbye, Mr. Duggan. [heaves a suitcase with his clothes and false papers off a bridge]
Polonius: 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.
Lou Bloom: Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
Old Ghost Woman: [singing] ambition is false fame and will fall, death will reign, man falls in vain
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society.
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
