I'd rather stick with reality. Dreams are deceptive.

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

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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

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

— Momin Mishra

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

— Al Franken

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

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

— Terence Simmons

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

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

“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

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

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits…

— Jonathan Raban

The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks…

— Charles Hummel

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

— Lucinda Williams