falseness quotes

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

- Charles Robert Darwin
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, ch.13.

All violent feelings†produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the'Pathetic Fallacy'.

-John Ruskin
  Modern Painters, vol.3, pt.4, ch.12.