False Quotes

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

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.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

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.

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

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

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Every white man in this country has been raised with a false sense of power.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

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

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.