Deceiving Quotes - Page 18

• We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

  Vernon Howard

  Light, Defeat

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• Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

  Carl Jung

  Doe

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• When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised. It is easy to think that by making a promise you have at least done part of what you promised to do, as if the promise itself were something of value. Not at all! In fact, when you do not do what you promise, it is a long way back to the truth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Thinking, Long

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• A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Philosophy, Men

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.344, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Romantic, Honesty

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• I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.

  Scott McClellan

  Believe, White, People

  Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, PublicAffairs

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• I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.

  Eugene Talmadge

  May, Surprise

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• Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can pretend, but that pretension makes you a hypocrite. And your pretension cannot deceive the woman, because she has known your love and the pretension cannot become the substitute. The only way is to separate - in friendship, because you have given each other so much.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Hypocrite, Arbitrary

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• They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

  Antonio Porchia

  Loving You, Seems

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, May, Telescopes

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• Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

  Mehmet Oz

  Names, Use, Claims

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• Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
  Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
  For in best understandings sin began,
  Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
  Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
  Are beasts in all but white integrity.

  John Donne

  Integrity, Angel, Men

  John Donne (1896). “Poems of John Donne”

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• There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

  Robert Breault

  Lying, Language Of Love, Doe

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• A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Promise, Principles

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.24, Xist Publishing

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• What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Numbers, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Doe, Reason

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.

  Muhammad Ali

  Giving, Littles, Ashamed

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• Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Reason, Conscience

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• Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Eye, Motor Racing

  "The final pit stop". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2000.

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• I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

  Pierre Bayle

  Citations, Prudence, Quotations

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• Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Integrity, Meditation, Sincerity

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• I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Truth, Honesty, Found

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• In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Art, Essentials, Novelty

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• The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

  Abraham Flexner

  War, Government, United States

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• He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

  Philip Neri

  Love, God, Christian

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