Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than… — James Vila Blake 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
We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate… — Bhikkhu Analayo Copy Share Image
Although most friendships that exist do not merit the name, we can nevertheless make use of them in accordance with our needs,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area… — Robert Greene 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
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good… — Anonymous 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
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
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry -… — Garrett P. Serviss 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
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
“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
