Deceptive Quotes

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
When the enemy's envoy's speak in humble terms, but continues his preparations, he will advance. When their language is deceptive but the enemy pretentiously advances,… — Sun Tzu
Appearances are deceptive. — Aesop
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can… — P.J. O'Rourke
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from… — Simone de Beauvoir
As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to more time away from her… — Julie B. Beck
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive. — Heraclitus
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past — Pierre Corneille
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except… — Bernard Cornwell
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false. — Kabir
This is evangelicalism today: sensual, carnal, unconverted people that have just enough deceptive religion to drive them straight into Hell! Are you that kind of… — Paul Washer
Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by â€˜the enemyâ€™, and from which oneâ€™s own acts of… — David Livingstone
Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in… — James Fitzjames Stephen
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt… — Plato
Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have formed an innovative… — Charles Ferguson

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