Quotes 21 till 40 of 121.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 51 -
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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