False Belief Sayings

#1. False belief is more emotional than true belief

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#2. Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

George Eliot

#3. Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Kent Nerburn

#4. Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.

William James

#5. We need to know the truth of that, pray to understand that death is just the false belief that anything could ever end. There's no going anywhere for any of us, not in reality. There's only changing how you see things." I

Emily Fridlund

#6. A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

Pope Leo I

#7. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

Orson Scott Card

#8. Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. False belief that morality can have a unique and objective state - to

Michael Shermer

#10. What chimps don't seem capable of understanding is the state of false belief. They don't have a theory of mind that accounts for actions driven by beliefs in conflict with reality. And really, who lacking that will ever be able to navigate the human world?

Karen Joy Fowler

#11. Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er."

Ramana Maharshi

#12. Heaven and hell are ways of thinking. Death is the false belief that anything could ever end.

Emily Fridlund

#13. Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

Marianne Williamson

#14. But it also demonstrates how difficult it is to correct a false belief after people have made an emotional investment in that belief being true. When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts.

Jon Krakauer

#15. Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief.

Debasish Mridha

#16. One of the biggest lessons people on Earth have is the false belief that looks, money and power are requirements for love, when it's the opposite.

Brownell Landrum

#17. If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

Franz Kafka

#18. The truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

Alanis Morissette

#19. A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.

Criss Jami

#20. What is false about hope?

Mitch Albom

#21. Perception is reality to the one in the experience.

Danielle Bernock

#22. Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.

Lolah Runda

#23. Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money ... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they were enriching the country they were impoverishing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. 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

#25. There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

Anne McCaffrey

#26. I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

Christopher Hitchens

#27. Belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production

Gilles Deleuze

#28. No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

Henry George

#29. Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own. To break through this false view is to be liberated from every sort of fear, pain, and anxiety.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#30. Our minds have been poisoned and our accepted beliefs are unnatural and artificial.

Bryant McGill

#31. Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.

Stefan Molyneux

#32. You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#33. No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.

Justin Martyr

#34. People aren't interested in the truth, Dafar. They're interested in what keeps them safe. They're interested in being looked after. They're interested in a tale being spun ... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.

Melina Marchetta

#35. How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity.

Kedar Joshi

#36. People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

Eugen Drewermann

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#38. Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it's not a false idea

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#39. The truth is we don't know the truth. We just live and learn how to tell the truth because we were born liars.

Auliq Ice

#40. In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

Austin Osman Spare

#41. The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#42. If war is the health of the state, despair is the health of religion. Until African workers and peasants find belief systems that provides them with real hope of happiness in the here and now, they will continue to grasp at religion's false hope of happiness in the hereafter.

Anonymous

#43. In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

Samuel P. Huntington

#44. If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.

George Gaylord Simpson

#45. belief, by its very nature, is exclusive. If The earth is more than four billion years old is true, then the claim, The earth is fewer than ten thousand years old is false. And so my believing the truth of the former entails my also believing the falseness of the latter.

David Werther

#46. The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

George Bernard Shaw

#47. It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

Anna Howard Shaw

#48. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

Criss Jami

#49. Epistemologists have come to a loose description of knowledge as justified true belief which is not based off false assumptions, but even this is fallacious as the prerequisite knowledge required for justification makes this a circular definition.

Chris Matakas

#50. False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

Richard Dawkins

#51. There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

Theodor Adorno

#52. Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

Errol Morris

#53. Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

Henry Rosovsky

#54. Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

Voltaire

#55. Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

Thomas Szasz

#56. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies, and in the end isn't that the real truth? The answer is no. No squared. The postmodernist belief in the

Michael Shermer

#57. Bursting our belief bubble is an emotional experience we are conditioned to avoid, even if the belief itself is false.

Gary Van Warmerdam

#58. Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that ... And this is not a belief that you can get from me or from Buddha or from Jesus. This is not knowledge; you will have to see it. You can see it right now!

Rajneesh

#59. Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

Ludwig Von Mises

#60. The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything - except the truth.

Rick Riordan

#61. Approval of what is approved of
Is as false as a well-kept vow.

John Betjeman

#62. When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.

Traian Basescu

#63. I can pretty much guarantee that every time you tearfully ask yourself the question, "WTF is my problem?!" the answer lies in some lame, limiting, and false subconscious belief that you've been dragging around without even realizing

Jen Sincero

#64. Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#65. For unfortunately the person most dogged in the belief in a false reputation is always that one, the possessor, who has the best means of knowing that it is not true.

Thomas Hardy