Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
Dont get confused between flattery and kindness these are the new kind of deceptions. — Chops Copy Share Image
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“Though these all qualify as deceptions in Boswall's mind, they are not all necessarily bad. Boswall believes it's up to individual filmmakers… — Chris Palmer Copy Share Image
“But I had learned deceptions could be uttered with a straight face, a warm smile might conceal malice, and that the most… — Sue Lynn Tan Copy Share Image
We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I thought to myself with what means, with what deceptions, with how many varied arts, with what industry a man sharpens his… — Francesco Vettori friend of Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Such letters...from the FDA, are, filled with objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc. ...Once… — Dean Burk Copy Share Image
“One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“Men are tested and tried amongst deceptions radically and they are winning for themselves abilities to give, to deliberate, to stand fast,… — Gabriel Brunsdon Copy Share Image
“You say a name, but its not known to anyone. Either because that man died or because He was a celebrity on… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“In cases of organized and multi-perpetrator abuse when the abuse occurs in the context of rituals and ceremonies, some elements of the… — Graeme Galton Copy Share Image
“It's not unfortunate that people aren't genuine; what's unfortunate is that insincere people try to act sincere and in doing so, mislead… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have understood: that for… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire. — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“The cloth of a person is never a true measure of his wisdom and understanding” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Don’t be deceived by the spirit of complacency and think you have achieved enough. Try to become better than you’ve been.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces.” — Hayley Solich Copy Share Image
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
“It’s the little deceptions that no one catches that are going to dissolve it all someday. We’ll look at clocks and we… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
