Deceive Quotes
366 quotes by 278 authors
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If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course knows this and…
— Sheri L. Dew
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I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost self-sacrifice,…
— Jerzy Andrzejewski
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We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we’re all too eager to…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
— Charles Bukowski
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Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural,…
— Julia Child
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A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
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That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness…
— Glen Duncan
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
— R. D. Laing
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We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already…
— Margaret MacMillan
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Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness…
— Marcus Aurelius
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government…
— Jack Kelly
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And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others;…
— C.S. Lewis
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For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated…
— William Shakespeare
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Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence…
— Ayn Rand
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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are…
— Samuel Johnson
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not…
— William Gibson
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Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can…
— James E. Faust
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