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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis

True, Important, Cannot

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

True, Self, Night

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge, Ignorance, Dangerous

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

Time, Times, Months

All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain

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 Nietzsche

Truth, Lost, Laugh

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates

Evil, Words, Soul

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Wrong, Ideas

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Law, Himself

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare

Heart, Face, Hide

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, Truth, Wise

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare

Lost, Reputation, Deserving

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare

True, Quarrel, Valor

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.
Frederick Douglass

True, Others, Rather

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.
Benjamin Franklin

Great, Made, Value

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 Nietzsche

Truth, Lost, Laugh

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
Michelle Obama

Yourself, True, Negative

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Sai Baba

Live, Around, Values

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran

Wisdom, Road, Turn

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Confidence, Rights, Gift

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion, Wise, True

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.
Richard Burton

Life, Friendship, True

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

Humanity, Almost, Rule

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.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Sunshine, Friends, Leaving

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II

Religion, Science, Error

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker

Best, Person, Learned

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead

Work, Age, Learning

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.
Camille Claudel

Character, Greatest, Everyone

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
Adrienne Rich

Past, Real, Memories

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass

Future, Past, America

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