False Quotes - page 3

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. (Don DeLillo)
There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer. Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind. View quote
William Cowper
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. View quote
Charles Kingsley
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? View quote
Frank Moore Colby
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! View quote
Marie de France
To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to the preservation of a false order of facts. And this false consciousness has become embodied in the prevailing technical apparatus which in turn reproduces it. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts - that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant. (Eugen Drewermann)
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought. View quote
Mark Kingwell
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. View quote
William Shakespeare
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Pharisees - that is to say, friars. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. View quote
Saul Bellow
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. View quote
Aristotle
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. View quote
Paul
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. View quote
Andrew Weil
The usefulness of observation and measurement in testing economic theories arises because the theorems of economics are supposed to relate to the actual world... Any economic theorem rigorously deduced from given postulates may be regarded as a hypothesis about the actual world which xperience may show to be false. (Richard Stone)
The effects of 6 months of total social isolation were so devastating and debilitating that we had assumed initially that 12 months of isolation would not produce any additional decrement. This assumption proved to be false; 12 months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially. View quote
Harry Harlow
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. View quote
Langston Hughes
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. View quote
Lactantius