“What trouble we go to, trying to fool people who see right through us anyhow.” — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.” — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The overpraised are the worst deceivers." -The Saga of Grettir the Strong” — Lars Brownworth Copy Share Image
Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Self-deception, sometimes called self-sabotage kills dreams faster than deception from others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is bliss' only if you're ignorant enough to believe that that's where bliss comes from.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive… — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality,… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
