Top 534 False Quotes

I grew up in Tennessee. I loved to wear full glam. I used to want to wear flash lashes every single day. I remember wearing them once and someone was like, ‘Are you wearing false lashes?’ I felt embarrassed. In the U.S., it’s perceived as though you’re trying too hard.

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

A hair divides what is false and true.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

I say I’m the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I’d like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to debate me. Because I think that both of those guys – I think that the American people are being given a false choice, because the choice between the lesser of two evils is a false choice.

There’s this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that’s really false. We’re all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

I’m a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence.

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don’t think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it’s a sign of progress.

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.

I don’t do interviews under false pretenses.

The idea that just because you are a woman you should be supporting Hillary Clinton I think is false. There is a broad base of political views.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

The latter part of a wise person’s life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Donald Trump tests the limits of campaign speech. He makes false statements and refuses to correct them. He attacks other religions and ethnic groups, inflaming domestic tension and foreign terrorist rage.

When people ask a question that is based on a false premise or a question that skips over some details… what we try to do, on our best days, is be informative, explain how a process works.

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can’t put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it’s false.

I guess, throughout my entire time in NXT, I didn’t really have any false expectations of what it would be like to reach the main roster. I knew you’d have to work harder. I knew you’d have to bring it every single time.

No one has a First Amendment right to lie to a federal agency in order to claim an improper tax status in order to avoid legal disclosure requirements on political spending and thereby receive undue tax benefits. That’s a criminal false statement and possibly a fraud.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

In today’s society, a lot of males think you have to be strong all the time, and you’re not allowed to show weakness. That’s just so false.

Personality is everything that’s false in a human: everything that’s been added on to him and contrived.

Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so.

Eclecticism – every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.

I don’t give false claims any due.

Airbrushing has sold such a false idea of what a body looks like to the point where people can’t tell what’s real and what’s fake.

The thrill of science is the process. It’s a social process. It’s a process of collective discovery. It’s debate, it’s experimentation and it’s verification of claims that might be false. It’s the greatest foundation for a society.

My work is not great, but it’s respectable. I have no false illusions.

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

We haven’t been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

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.

The Fox News makeup treatment is unlike any other in journalism. It involves false lashes, layers and layers of foundation, and heavy applications of come-hither lip gloss.

It’s dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

If a marriage doesn’t work, you can’t do anything about it. I am not the kind who’ll stick on under false pretences.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don’t wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.

There is a false idea that I am stubborn and do only what I want, but really, I am like a sponge.

When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.

Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I’m more humane than that.

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned – after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media’s false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind’s proven role in global warming.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

There is so many good ideas that are left on the shelf of people going, ‘I’ve kind of great idea, but I just – I’m afraid.’ Out of fear. Fear blocks all of that it’s a false fear.

Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself – not just for others, but for himself, to protect his deeply fragile ego. He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself.

There’s a false concept that being gay and out in Hollywood will hurt your career. It’s intrinsic homophobia. It’s as if being gay is bad.

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there’s nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.