Famous quotes containing the words false and/or belief:
“These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 6:16-19.
“To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thingand a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes goodbut to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.”
—William Pepperell Montague (18421910)