“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
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
“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
“Once we comprehend the evolutionary function of deception, we stand better equipped to understand why it happens, when it is likely to… — Ptera Hunter Copy Share Image
I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour… — Arthur W. Pink 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
Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
