Top 21 False Standards Quotes
#1. It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
Sigmund Freud
#2. False education, false standards, false environment had developed her into a woman who imagined she must feed her body on the milk and honey of indulgence.
Zane Grey
#3. The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
Sigmund Freud
#4. If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#5. They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them
Kevin Martin
#6. I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.
Lester Bangs
#7. The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#8. He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#9. Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
Condoleezza Rice
#10. To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.
Christine Pelosi
#11. Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.
J.I. Packer
#12. Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
Gayle Forman
#13. It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.
Theodore Roosevelt
#14. The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard.
Shannon L. Alder
#15. To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#17. I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing ...
Jacob M. Appel
#18. I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
Richard Chamberlain
#19. Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against entropic noise. Order is not spontaneous, but it is a necessary condition for all the surprises of freedom and opportunity.
George Gilder
#20. You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is.
Richard Carrier
#21. Wine is an escape from grief,
a slip into sleep,
a cool forgetting of the hot pains of day.
What better cure for being human?
Euripides
