“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
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly,… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
“O Lord, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“My dear friend, there are two things in this world about which no one can be sure: whether or not one is… — Maurice Dekobra Copy Share Image
“Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.’ That is very true, otherwise there wouldn’t exist any… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself,… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
“You have been deceived. Spiritualism is no more a science than thievery. For that's all this is--very skilled dodgers stealing money from… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I wanted to deliver the emotions a man feels when he's in love. For example, through song "GG BE," I wanted to… — Seungri Copy Share Image
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. — John Locke 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
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
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much. — Maria Edgeworth 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
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be… — William Grant Bangerter Copy Share Image
“It must be excruciating, but I lost all my sympathy for Haymitch when I realized how he had deceived us.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Your sister doubts me. Over the years I've played my part well, so well I've deceived one of the greatest wizards of… — Severus Snape Copy Share Image
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in… — David Platt Copy Share Image
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image