#false

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

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

— Maurice Sendak

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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet. ↗

— Walter Martin

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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ↗

— George Boole

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I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

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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. ↗

— Nancy Cartwright

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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. ↗

— David Horowitz

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