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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

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, Evil, Words, Only, Themselves

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, Self, Ego, Illusion, You

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

Knowledge, Heart, Mind, People, Spirit

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, Humility, Empathy, People

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, Knowledge, Ignorance, Good, Always

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

Shadow, Sun, Friend, Only, Sun Shines

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, Laws

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

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

All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain

Funny, Generalizations, Including

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Character, Man, Sea, Water, Fire, Heaven

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

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

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Day, Laugh, Lost, Every Day, Call

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, Truth Is, Thoughts, World

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, You, Lose, Belief

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, Be True, My Own, True, Own, Than

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. Camille Claudel

Character, I Am, Devil, Mood, Pleasure

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. Christian Nestell Bovee

Walk, Shadow, Sunshine, Friends, Leaving

I had to take false steps and go through hard times to come out to where I am now. I can't imagine living without acting. It's not easy, and I don't disrespect anyone who steps out of it after a certain point. Having a family and a house is cool. It's not a betrayal. But if you're going to be an actor, it has to be more than a passing interest. Marylouise Burke

Family, Cool, I Am, Disrespect, You

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

Struggle, Heart, Suffering, Joy, Door

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

A hair divides what is false and true. Omar Khayyam

Hair, True, Divides

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, Weakness, Opinion, More

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare

Man, Day, Night, Self, Be True, True

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

Great, Humble, God, Religion, People

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions. Robin S. Sharma

Eyes, World, Remember, Assumptions, See

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