Untrue Quotes - Page 7

• The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Psychology, Moral

  Marriage and Morals ch. 16 (1929)

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• STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Stories, Narrative

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.210, 谷月社

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• Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) is the sffulgence of Shanthi.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Love Is, Men

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• The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

  James F. Cooper

  Real, Democracy, Levels

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• What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

  H. L. Mencken

  Body, Professors, Function

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• Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Giving, Suffering, Important

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• Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Say Anything, World, Cash

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• The untrue things don't deserve to be respected!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Deserve

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• Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one.

  Jude Law

  Broken, Looks, Stories

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• The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

  Franz Kafka

  True Words, Mislead

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• All religions are both harmful and untrue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.25, Routledge

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• The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Common, Folly

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• Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Views, Holiness

  Oswald Chambers (2014). “Love: A Holy Command”, p.87, Discovery House

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• It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Order, Income, Rich

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.397, VM eBooks

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• We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

  Gregory Bateson

  Technology, Today, Way

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.510, University of Chicago Press

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• A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Strange, Imagine, Said

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 23, 2012

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• I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.

  Tibor Kalman

  Photography, Believe, Being True

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• The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Heart, Cities, Forever

  Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

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• It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

  Stephen Fry

  Comedy, Unfaithful, Cliche

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot: An Autobiography”, Random House Incorporated

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• The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Education, Teacher, Trying

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• An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Night, Long Ago

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• I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what I felt, and why should I be untrue to myself? I came to believe the importance that if you feel something strong enough then you should say it.

  George Harrison

  Strong, Believe, Feelings

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• The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good.

  George S. Patton

  Done, Publicity, Harm

  Letter to Frederick Ayers on May 05, 1943. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 242, 1996.

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• The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Giants, Wave

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• I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

  George Harrison

  Men, Thinking, He Man

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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