We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Do you even care? If it's a twisted game, I have two words for you: GAME OVER. — Leslie Copy Share Image
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored,… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
He's just very deceiving. He just covers a lot of ground with ease. I got to the three-eighths pole, and I even… — Ramon A. Dominguez Copy Share Image
I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to… — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence. — Ellin Devis Copy Share Image
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
“It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
