False Belief

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or belief:

    That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at different periods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)