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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life. Wayne Dyer

Life, Identity, Ego, Self, Illusion, You

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates

Soul, Words, Evil, Only, Themselves

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised. James A. Forbes

Heart, Knowledge, People, Mind, Spirit

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. Michelle Obama

Goals, Yourself, I Am, Energy, Negative

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of 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

Life, Good, Knowledge, Ignorance, Way

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. - Benjamin Franklin

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. Benjamin Franklin

Friend, Shadow, Sun, Only, Sun Shines

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw

Wisdom, Knowledge, Ignorance, Dangerous

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks

Time, Healing, Process, Oppression, Up

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world. Sai Baba

Live, World, Values, Illusion, You, See

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick Douglass

Myself, True, Be True, My Own, Others

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you. Anand Mahindra

Life, Humble, Empathy, Humility, People

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking. Wayne Dyer

Truth, Stress, People, Truth Is, World

All generalizations are false, including this one. - Mark Twain

All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain

Funny, Generalizations, Including

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Richard Burton

Life, Friendship, True Friendship, True

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? George Sand

Heart, Joy, Struggle, Suffering, Regret

Ring out the false, ring in the true. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out the false, ring in the true. Alfred Lord Tennyson

New Year's, Ring, True, Out

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. - Rumi

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. Rumi

Heart, Truth, Joyous, Troubles, Which

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

Faith, Truth, Wise, Lose, You, Belief

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. Marquis de Sade

Eating, Important, Satisfied, Sex, Allow

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Mencken

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. H. L. Mencken

Humanity, Always, Almost, Save, Rule

If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. Pope Francis

God, Great, Humble, Religion, People

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth, Truth Is, Opinion, Weakness

A hair divides what is false and true. - Omar Khayyam

A hair divides what is false and true. Omar Khayyam

Hair, True, Divides

There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

People, Color, Saying, Choose, You, Say

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Frederick Douglass

Future, Past, America, Present, Herself

I lost my front tooth in rugby league when a fat guy from Bellevue Hill kicked me in the face as I got up from a tackle to mark him. I made this decision not to cap the tooth because I thought it was false. But I didn't make any movies as a teenager, and I had a very hard time with girls and stuff. Russell Crowe

Time, Decision, Me, Thought, Face, Fat

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