Quotes of: False Keyword

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

George Santayana

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Dead as a Doornail

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

Emma

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

Marcia Gay Harden

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

Douglas Hurd

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

Roger Wicker

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

Maurice Sendak

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Heraclitus

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Doris Lessing

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

Jasper Johns

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Frank A. Clark

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

Ezra Taft Benson

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Jules Feiffer

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Horace

Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself. It will look at first like disaster, but is really...

An Imaginary Life

The censor pretends he is protecting tender hearts, shielding children from sex and violence, keeping the righteous in the right path, guarding against temptation, preserving virtue. How? by burning books, tearing out tongues, stretching necks, stoni...

Tests of Time

Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of ...

The Fall

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Complete Works

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

The Balcony