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  • Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
  • The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
  • The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
  • Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.
  • Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Joseph De Maistre False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Igor Stravinsky I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • P. D. James No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Paul Valery That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Robert Bresson The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Marquis de Sade ''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Simone Weil A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • W. H. Auden A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Henry Fielding A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Omar Khayyam A hair divides what is false and true.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton 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.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Master Kahn All words are part true and part false.
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Francis Bacon Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Lord George Byron Believe a woman or an epitaph,
    Or any other thing that's false, before
    You trust in critics, who themselves are sore.
    English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers (1809)
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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