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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.
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.
To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
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!
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.
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
All the excuses that people in power used to make for not telling diverse stories or including diverse people, they've proven to be false.
Trump simply can't dial down the lying, or turn it off - even, his own attorneys suggest, when false statements may be punished as crimes.
False allegations of racism, bigotry, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and now lying each have their own chapter in the Trump takedown playbook.
From what it seems like in my follower base, they have these bad misconceptions about China, and some of them are true and some are false.
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
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.
I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence.
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.
Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties.
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.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Any false religion ultimately is a deception of Satan, to try and keep people from the only way to Heaven, which is through faith in Jesus Christ.
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.
I've never worn costume jewelry in my life. It's really very self-defeating. Why should a man buy a woman real jewelry when she wears false pieces?
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
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.
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.
At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.
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.
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.
There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
Every woman should wear make-up. It takes years off. I'm wearing lots of false eyelashes today, and to me, lipstick is the best cosmetic that exists.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
A random rumor that did a rounds about me was that I am an actor who throws tantrums on the sets and likes to be treated like a King. Which is false.
A lot of times, we are trapped by our own false sense of security. You can do whatever it is you put your mind to. Your goal is to find your purpose.