You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
You’ve no more for me than I have for you.” Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: “How can you say… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using this as an… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses. — Confucius Copy Share Image
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. — Sidney Jourard Copy Share Image
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the… — John Vance Cheney Copy Share Image
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents. — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,… — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
