“And it is seldom easy to convince a person that he is playing the fool.” — Donna Lynn Hess Copy Share Image
“People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There are two possibilities: either you changed or I didn't know the real you until now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves. — Russ Roberts Copy Share Image
He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard. — Plautus Copy Share Image
Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so… — Eugene Burger Copy Share Image
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
The cosmetics world and mentalism are both arenas of deception, but I suppose the difference is that mentalists and magicians are more… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
“They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“There are casualties in war. Those who don’t make it back to a place of sound hopes and dreams. Some take on… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one! — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Excuses are the best friend of a lie, and leaving information out are its brother. — Jamie Skinner Copy Share Image
“Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil.” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
