Quotes of Falsely - somelinesforyou

“ If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth. ”

- Christopher Hampton

“ Falsely honest men are those who disguise their faults to both themselves and others; truly honest men are those who know their faults perfectly and acknowledge them. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world. ”

- John Winthrop

“ It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom supposed falsely, that all would go if they could; to be able to say nothing when everyone is talking; to have no opinion when everyone is judging; to hear exclamations of rapture without power to depress; to listen to falsehoods without right to contradict, is, after all, a state of temporary inferiority, in which the mind is rather hardened by stubbornness, than supported by fortitude… ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness… ”

- Unknown

“ There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances… ”

- Adrienne Rich

“ We falsely attribute to men a determined character — putting together all their yesterdays — and averaging them — we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support — it is worse than a large family — he is the silent poor indeed. ”

- Henry David Thoreau
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