Misleading Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old misleading quotes, misleading sayings, and misleading proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance. David Mitchell
False friends leave you in times of trouble. Aesop
Better a false belief than no belief at all. George Eliot
Many a false step was made by standing still. Patti LaBelle
False praise is always confined to the great. Henry Home
False values begin with the worship of things. Susan Sontag
A false modesty is the meanest species of pride. Edward Gibbon
False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot. Nadia Boulanger
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true. Marcus Tullius Cicero
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare
A false sense of security is the only kind there is. Michael Meade
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime. W. H. Auden
False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie. Jean De La Bruyere
False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse. Winston Smith
False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty. Guru Nanak
False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil. Socrates
False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence. Dov Davidoff
The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true. Robert Green Ingersoll
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived. Vernon Howard
The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality. Robert W. Firestone