“The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow… — David Cronenberg 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
Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
It appears to be a re-run of a bad movie. [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] is delaying. He's deceiving. He's asking for time.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image