Deceiving Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with…

— Mark Rothko

We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it…

— William Hazlitt

“The world is our own reflection. As long as there is deceit in you, others will deceive you.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden...

— Anonymous

“we need others to see us as we see ourselves. We want to find common ground, but not be a copycat. The need is…

— Sheena Iyengar

“What you perceive might deceive you”

— Thabiso Monkoe

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little…

— William Hazlitt

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Perception at the rudimentary level has the ability to deceive.”

— Steven Redhead

“To see oneself as one really is—if one is ever unlucky enough to have that experience—is quite shattering. The veil of illusions and little…

— M.C. Beaton

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld