Deceiving Quotes · Page 6

What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

— John Milton

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

— Phyllis Bottome

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

— Mahmoud Darwish

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

— Cardinal Richelieu

“Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain.”

— Angelica Hopes

“We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self].”

— Dada Bhagwan

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

— Joseph Addison

Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds'…

— Anthony of Padua

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

— Rajneesh

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms…

— Benjamin Whichcote

By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the…

— Dalai Lama

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control…

— Euripides

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have…

— Joan Didion

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

— John Locke

We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.

— Vance Havner

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your…

— Elizabeth Goudge

Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself.…

— Dalai Lama

In fact, a case could be made that worrying about a problem actually prevents you from resolving it, because it deceives your…

— Sarah Strohmeyer

Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak…

— Saint Augustine

Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college…

— Stephenie Meyer

To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of…

— Elspeth Huxley

In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He…

— Charles Stanley

I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in…

— Anonymous

Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if…

— John Tillotson

Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel,…

— Lyman Abbott

Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike…

— Patrick Henry

If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course…

— Sheri L. Dew

We’ve been secretly datin’ since last week.” He gives me a smile and a look that says I’m his one-and-only. That smile…

— Simone Elkeles

Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of…

— Jose Saramago

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

— Otto von Bismarck

“In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.”

— Oscar Wilde

The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.

— Sol Stein

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

— Che Guevara

The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

— Joseph Joubert

Dont judge people by their looks because looks are always deceiving.

— Anonymous

I smile but it doesn't mean that I'm okay and happy. Remember, looks can be deceiving.

— Anonymous

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

— James Thurber