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“I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something…

— Margaret Atwood

“Always follow your heart in deep situations. As other people's heart may be full of schemes and greed.”

— Cholo Cruz

“We are encouraged to see honest people as naive, as potential losers.”

— Bell Hooks

“In most cases, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevskys

“A noble heart should not belie its thoughts; it wants to reveal itself even to its inmost depths. There everything is good, at least…

— Michel de Montaigne

“When you’re dealing with people who have no moral center, no loyalty to anyone but themselves, you don’t always get the logical results you…

— Nelson DeMille

“Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.”

— Frank Peretti

“There will always be a temptation to tell a neat story that makes everything sensible and logical and that suggests why the deserving succeeded…

— Philip M. Rosenzweig

“So maybe this was another example of nothing ever being just one thing. No motive is pure. No one is good or bad—but a…

— Carrie Fisher

“I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even…

— Emil Cioran

“Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt of immorality,…

— Terry Goodkind

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero