Top 61 False Wisdom Quotes
#1. True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#2. I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#4. There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
Jean De La Bruyere
#5. True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
Josh Billings
#6. To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.
Henry David Thoreau
#7. The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart
Viktor Schauberger
#8. Even if false gold makes a man happy:
At the mint it will be identified.
Idries Shah
#10. Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran
#11. A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.
Criss Jami
#12. Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.
Jonathan Swift
#13. I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.
Gore Vidal
#14. Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
Fulton J. Sheen
#15. There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
Edmund Burke
#16. t takes great courage to stand up against your fixed, false beliefs.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#19. Wisdom will not go with comforting illusions, false sentiment, or the use of rose-colored glasses.
J.I. Packer
#20. wisdom is great, but sometimes, those who think they are wiser than others can become the otherwise
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#21. Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!
Benjamin
#22. Most of us are living in a prison of our fixed, false beliefs and never try to find the door to get out to see and feel the beauty of life, even when the door is wide open and welcoming.
Debasish Mridha
#23. What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
Sri Aurobindo
#25. And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it.
Gary Rohrmayer
#28. A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant begets misery,
As living in a house with a serpent in it begets death surely.
[5] 1.5 Chanakya
Munindra Misra
#29. Many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom.
Jack Kornfield
#30. And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare
Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14
William Shakespeare
#31. From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.
Thiruvalluvar
#32. Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.
Sam Keen
#33. We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs.
Debasish Mridha
#34. Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable.
Paul Valery
#35. The prophet who misses it occasionally in his prophecies may be ignorant, immature, or presumptuous, or he may be ministering with too much zeal and too little wisdom and anointing. But this does not prove him a false prophet. It is certainly possible for a true prophet to be inaccurate.
Bill Hamon
#36. It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.
Marianne Williamson
#37. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.
Acharya Mahapragya
#38. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
Ayn Rand
#39. Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
John Milton
#40. There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
Benjamin Carson
#41. The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
George Santayana
#42. I am not pretty, I am not ugly,
I am not true, I am not false,
I am just me,
a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation.
Debasish Mridha
#43. The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
Lactantius
#44. Proverbs 19:8-9 8 To acquire wisdom is to love yourself; people who cherish understanding will prosper. 9 A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will be destroyed.
Anonymous
#45. Who anger, nor joy, nor pride, nor false modesty, nor stupefaction, nor vanity,
Can draw away from the high ends of life, is ever considered wise certainly.
[20] - 33 Mahatma Vidur
Munindra Misra
#46. Sadness is not out there. It's inside you. Sadness is often a misperception and false interpretation of a situation.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
Immanuel Kant
#50. He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality.
Ben Okri
#51. Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief.
Debasish Mridha
#52. No is a false perception.
Yes is a positive conception.
Go with reality and reason.
Debasish Mridha
#53. They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#54. Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.
Soupy Sales
#55. When you see things through your heart, there is no right or wrong, true or false, only there is love to share.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Humanity suffers because most of us are living in our prison of fixed, false beliefs and we don't want to get out of it.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, "Charity".)
Charles Baxter
#58. No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#60. I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
#61. I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
John Milton
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