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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

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

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

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

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

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

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, You, True

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. - William Shakespeare

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare

Heart, Face, Know, Hide, Must, Doth

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

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do. Billy Graham

Goals, Day, Commitment, World, Values

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

All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain

Funny, Generalizations, Including

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, Save, Almost, Rule

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

Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it's really easy to look at someone else's life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect. Franchesca Ramsey

Life, Great, Social Media, Reality, Look

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, Illusion, You, Values, See

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, Present, More

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. W. E. B. Du Bois

People, True, Worthy, Ideal

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C. S. Lewis

True, Infinite, Important, Only, Cannot

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. Charles Darwin

Science, Progress, Facts, Long, Pleasure

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, Walls

I prefer a real villain to a false hero. Killer Mike

Hero, Villain, Real, Prefer

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

A hair divides what is false and true. Omar Khayyam

Hair, True, Divides

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, Struggle, Suffering, Joy, Regret

Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope. Robert Kennedy

Women, Hope, Great, Men, Communism, Only

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. Katherine Mansfield

Love, True Love, True, Mushrooms, Tell

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, Mind, People, Ability

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