Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what is in front of you and what you are seeing isn’t really so. It can, in fact, be quite deceptive.” — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false. — Kabir Copy Share Image
Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Barry Levinson is such a deceptive director, because he seems really lackadaisical. I'd never worked with him before, and I almost got… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of… — Charles Hummel Copy Share Image
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat Copy Share Image
A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which,… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The judge took one look at it and threw it out. He said the honey trap was “deceptive conduct of the grossest… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish… — Max Born Copy Share Image
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines. — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes… — Clare of Assisi Copy Share Image
“...I don't think it's any more deceptive than wearing four-inch come-fuck-me pumps when one has no intention of ever fucking anybody.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives. — Jean Stapleton Copy Share Image
Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum. — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
This is evangelicalism today: sensual, carnal, unconverted people that have just enough deceptive religion to drive them straight into Hell! Are you… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
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