#false

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. ↗

— Hesiod

#confidence #either #false #greatly #harms

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#insidious #more #often #partial #than

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false. ↗

— Enya

#bit #carpet #events #false #glitzy

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#carelessness #falsehood #intentionally #lying #more

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#betray #false #i #i am #leaders

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#eventually #false #history #indication #out

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#false modesty #i #i think #indie #modesty

After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#capture #centered #false #false sense #find

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#defeat #defiance #falsehood #force #fraud

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#enlightened #false #free #free society #lie