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"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." »Salvador Dali
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"false face must hide what the false heart doth know." »William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I.vii
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"false facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness." »Charles Robert Darwin
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"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..." »Learned Hand
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"Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice." »Gilbert Chesterton
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"Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true." »D. March
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"It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves." »Feltham
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"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false." »Paul Valery
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"Round numbers are always false." »Samuel Johnson
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"false enchantment can last a lifetime." »W. H. Auden
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"Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence." »Jules Feiffer
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"All general statements are false." »Unknown
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"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false." »Paul Valery
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"In the unlikely story that is America, there's never been anything false about hope." »Barack Obama
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"In a false quarrel there is no true valour." »William Shakespeare
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"In false quarrels there is no true valor." »William Shakespeare
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"A hair divides what is false and true." »Omar Khayyam
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"Life is an unbroken succession of false situations." »Thornton Wilder
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"If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway." »Mother Theresa
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"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals." »Agnes Repplier
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"Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine." »Irwin Edman
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"Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life." »H. G. Wells
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"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving." »William Shakespeare
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"Understand a man by his deeds and words; the impressions of others lead to false judgment." »The Talmud
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"This above all TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." »William Shakespeare
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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." »Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
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"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals." »Agnes Repplier
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"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." »William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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