So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists. — Dogen Copy Share Image
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in… — Martial Copy Share Image
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old… — Judah the Prince Copy Share Image
Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one… — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
. . . you should know that there is present with you the angel whom God has appointed for each man. .… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image