#false

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#arouse #art #bad #does #even

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#every #evidence #facts #false #falseness

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. ↗

— Simone Weil

#being #being deceived #deceived #doctrine #doctrines

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#clearly #disaster #false #iraq #out

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#by the people #classified #control #could #data

In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#false #inquiry #may #oral #possible

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#false #greatest #progress #stagnation

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#cannot #darkness #falsehood #knowing #light

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#another #apostle #called #censured #doctrines