Quotes About Deceive

This kind of consolation from the world's deceit is very common. Mothers obtain it from their children, and men from their dogs. Some men even do so from their walking-sticks, which is just as rational. How is it that we can take joy to ourselves in that we are not deceived by those who have not attained the art to deceive us?

Aim small. You don't want to shoulder too much to begin with, given your limited talents, tendency to deceive, burden of resentment, and ability to shirk responsibility.

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world

behind each word is a meaning. Some words are friendly; some are not. Some will cause you pain. Some will make you cry. Some will protect you. Some will deceive you. Still, words and their meaning can be indispensable in preparing you for the battles you must win in order to survive. The

Telling people the truth relieves one of responsibility. It is then their decision what they do, not yours. It is only when you lie or deceive them that you continue to hold responsibility." Pitr

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

In secret we met -In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years, How should I greet thee? -With silence and tears

The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence.

But if the Cosmos is closed and light cannot escape from it, then it may be perfectly correct to deceive the universe as a black hole. If you wish to know what it is like inside a black hole, look around you.

You would deceive me for a single kiss." "I would raze worlds for a single kiss." "Try saving one, for far more than that.

Sin and Satan deceive our hearts with lies that God is distant. His hand of discipline declares he is never nearer.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody.

In secret we met In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive.

and Umétsu remembered that goblins were wont to assume feminine shapes after dark, in order to deceive and destroy men.

Better is it now to purify the soul from sin, than to cling to sins from which we must be purged hereafter. Truly we deceive ourselves by the inordinate love which we bear towards the flesh.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

Our level of development is fairly obvious with tennis or piano playing, where it is impossible to pretend. But it is not so obvious in the areas of character and emotional development. We can pose and put on for a stranger or an associate. We can pretend. And for a while we can get by with it - at least in public. We might even deceive ourselves.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.