Deceiving Quote by Confucius Download Open image “Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.” — Confucius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deceiving Music Music is One thing Pretense Trying Use
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been… — Dessa Darling Copy Share Image
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty. — Sophie Hunger Copy Share Image
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
To me, music is more like a spiritual seeking that takes one to unknown levels. — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
I lied a lot when I was a kid. Somehow, I still do this today, but maybe in another way - not quite as… — Sophie Hunger Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world. — Confucius Copy Share Image
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak! — Confucius Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image