False Notion Quotes

#1. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.

Ramana Maharshi

#2. The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

Gelek Rimpoche

#3. What greater fetter to anchoring ourselves to the false notion of self could there be than a selfie? It is named after an illusion!

Chris Matakas

#4. People buy into this false notion of reverse racism, where they believe that just because there's a group of people getting together to share something about their heritage that we're excluding white people. But that's not the reality.

Simon S. Tam

#5. [But if things continue the way they are] ... the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war ...

Ahad Ha'am

#6. The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

Baron De Montesquieu

#7. There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

Maynard Webb

#8. In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

Paul Robeson

#9. There's a crazy, false notion that audiences are not patient or will not watch a story, that you have to put in a scare every ten minutes. But I always thought that was insane.

Eli Roth

#10. Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

Isaac Asimov

#11. Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

Amy Grant

#12. The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

Jeb Bush

#13. Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

W. H. Auden

#14. How your brain developed during your first five years has had an enormous impact on how well you learn and cope today. Again, the most important thing to keep in mind is that you are made of cells and cells change. So even if you didn't get the best start, you can have a fantastic finish.

Toni Sorenson

#15. Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable or that the Communists are steadily pushing the free world into a corner.

Robert Kennedy

#16. He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

John Owen

#17. Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.

Iain Sinclair

#18. Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Nicolas Malebranche

#19. Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

Thomas Clarkson

#20. To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Samuel Richardson

#21. We're starting to behave as if we've reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the sensation of certitude it generates is paralyzing.

Chuck Klosterman

#22. I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character and acting on the false impressions she cherished.

Emily Bronte

#23. I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

Peter Greenaway

#24. The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don't have these.

Bill Bailey

#25. When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom.

Tedd Tripp

#26. In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

Sonya Hartnett

#27. If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended!

Guy Kawasaki

#28. The notion that 'it all somehow must make sense', or 'there is a best decision here', preserves from despair: the difficulty is how to entertain this consoling notion in a way which is not false.

Iris Murdoch

#29. Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.

Robert O. Paxton

#30. The notion that we systematically adopt false beliefs to "protect the self" is illogical when you consider that whatever the mind is designed to do, it must be to get things done, not to make us happy.

Robert Kurzban

#31. Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today.

Ronald Reagan

#32. Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Soren Kierkegaard

#33. The man i'll never be,
Who remembers him?

Stephen Sondheim

#34. What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.

Tony Judt

#35. When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Jennifer O'Neill

#36. What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!

George Berkeley

#37. Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

William Cowper