“Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.” — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism — Alex Salmond Copy Share Image
The truth may hurt someone but it is far better than from temporary comfort provided by a lie. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people… — Mike Miller Copy Share Image
I will be here and be around, watching over you. You can bet on that. I'll find a way to get some… — John Chaney Copy Share Image
Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to… — Nathaniel Cotton Copy Share Image
“Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.” — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong.… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man.… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
You know, it's better to have an enemy who lets you know that he hates you than to have a trusted friend… — Jehan Fostanes Nayga Copy Share Image
After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
“The first generation of therapists doing this work were told by their clients that the one massive cult was everywhere, knew everything,… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“MAKING THE LIE MAKE SENSE: When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image