False Quotes - page 11

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity. (Voltaire)
We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad. View quote
Erwin Schrödinger
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding. View quote
Larry Wall
People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise. View quote
Subhash Kak
In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. View quote
Guy de Maupassant
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. View quote
Isaac Newton
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
94. I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect. View quote
Martin Luther
The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. View quote
Charles Hodge
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. View quote
Henry Flynt
But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time. View quote
Anna Godbersen
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright. View quote
Mario Puzo
Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims. View quote
Mehmet Oz
There's never a false note in a Berg novel. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable. View quote
Robert Ludlum
For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock. (Timothy Zahn)
Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope. View quote
Trudi Canavan
The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false. View quote
Philip Reeve
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying. View quote
Howard Gardner
I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions. View quote
Juan Manuel Santos