Deceiving Quotes - Page 6

• Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Reality, Deceiving Yourself, Conditions

  John D. Rockefeller (2003). “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events”, p.133, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.

  Sol Stein

  Eye, Magic, Mind

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• Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Life, Deception, Demand

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• It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

  George D. Prentice

  Lying, People, Telling The Truth

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• Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.

  Richard Whately

  Children, Poison, Half

  Richard Whately (1861). “Logic”, p.65

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• It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Deception, Deceived, Oneself

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• The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

  John Owen

  Self, Views, Imagination

  John Owen (1815). “Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ: In Two Parts. I. In His Person, Office, and Grace; with the Differences Between Faith and Sight: Applied Unto the Use of Them that Believe. II. The Application of the Same Meditations Unto Unconverted Sinners, and Saints Under Spiritual Decays”, p.3

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• It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

  Anatole France

  Deception, Talent, Ability

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.76, Anatole France

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• Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, God

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• Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

  Samuel Johnson

  Deceit, Ease, Guilty

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.147

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• Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Men, Deception

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Ideas, Sound

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• Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Change, Memories, Way

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• Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time you work toward some goal. Look very closely to discover tense feelings and nervous thoughts whirling around inside. Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.

  Vernon Howard

  Goal, Creative, Feelings

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• O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Lonely, Divorce, Journey

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• The smile that illumines the features of beauty,
  When kindled by virtue, alluring appears;
  But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow,
  To vie with the softness of beauty in tears.
  The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving;
  Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears;
  But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling,
  And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears.

  Henry George Bohn

  Feelings, Magic, Cold Hearted

  Henry George Bohn (1867). “A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets”, p.623

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• He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.

  Rafael Trujillo

  Doe, Know How, Knows

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• What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

  Jacques Attali

  Communication, Self, Growth

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.

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• One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

  John Edward

  Doe, Ease, Oneself

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• We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deceiving Others, Deception, Tears

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• Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Disappointment, Promise, Cruelty

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• Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Successful, Mislead Us, Bait

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• Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Men, Fool, Bigger

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• If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you.

  Rumi

  Balance, Ifs

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.166, Shambhala Publications

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• whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.

  Johanna Spyri

  Thinking, Done, Deeds

  Johanna Spyri (1927). “Heidi”

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