Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

— Heraclitus

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

— Heraclitus

“Rubella, Talipes, Amsterdam dwarfism, Austism, Asthma, Eczema, Epilepsy - the Sacred Disease. Moth madness, Papa calls it. Said Daniel. The Epilepsy, Papa used to…

— Emma Henderson

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a…

— Anton Chekhov

“Experience, as we know, is deceptive: one judges the world through the prism of what has happened to oneself and considers this a just…

— Juan Bonilla

Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality…

— Howard Zinn

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few…

— Don Rickles

“Destiny is not obvious, it's deceptive, but you can't stop if from happening.”

— Terence Simmons

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which…

— John Berger

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

— Blaise Pascal

“right wing’s most common techniques—including the deceptive use of statistics.”

— Al Franken

“Looks are deceptive and has an ability to compel.”

— Momin Mishra

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib