What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired.… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry.… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you… — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves… — Jack Abbott Copy Share Image
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
