even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Remember what I’ve told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
“A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have. — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's been handled… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I say no to a double standard that men can roam and women must stay put at home. I say no to… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“We don't think of ourselves as 'unforgiving' or 'bitter'- those words imply that we are somehow personally responsible. We prefer to talk… — Byron Paulus Copy Share Image
Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
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