Deceiving Quotes - Page 15

• Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.

  Steve Spurrier

  Play, Littles, Knows

  Source: thetandd.com

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• Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Men, Two

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• Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.

  Francis Quarles

  Beauty, Wise, Heart

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.57

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• It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Atheism, Sticks

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• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

  Euripides

  Kings, Cities, Evil

  "Bellerophon". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 425 BCE.

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• He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sports, Doe, Praise

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “The Idler: With Additional Essays”, p.86

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• O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

  Henry Fielding

  Vanity, Generosity, Different

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The Adventures of Joseph Andrews”, p.52

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• Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

  William C. Bryant

  Mean, Self, Unhappy

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• Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

  Juvenal

  Shadow, Vices, Virtue

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• It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
  [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Car, Deceit, Pleasure

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• This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Mother, Wife, Faithful

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• Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

  Edward Bouverie Pusey

  Littles, Neglect, Duty

  Edward Bouverie Pusey (1883). “Maxims and gleanings from the writings of E.B. Pusey, selected by C.M.S.”

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• Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Humility, Pride

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• A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

  Norm MacDonald

  Practice, Rivals, Merit

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• Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise the authority of honesty, rather than to defer to power, or deceive to get it; to influence someone for justice, rather than impress anyone for gain and, by grace, to find treasures of joy, of friendship, of peace hidden in the fields of the daily you give me to plow.

  Ted Loder

  Honesty, Exercise, Giving

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• Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Thinking, Mountain

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Wish, Tests, Said

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”

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• Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Other Worlds, Illusion

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• The only rule Muslims know is to win. It does not matter how. All rules can be broken as long as they win the war. They can lie, they can deceive, they can break their treaties as Muhammad did, they can ambush or use terror, assassinate, massacre the children and bomb civilians. Muslims can even kill each other as long as this improves their chance of winning.

  Ali Sina

  Children, Lying, War

  Source: myislam.dk

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• If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.

  Paul Washer

  Thinking, Judging, Humbling

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Use, Language

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• In some big cities [in Pakistan] some women have access to a job and education - but the UN reported that more than 5 million girls cannot go to school. It's become an open secret. In some big cities they build schools to deceive people around the world, while the level of education remains very low, and even when they can go to school there is no security.

  Malalai Joya

  Girl, Jobs, School

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• I'm such an awful faker. Everything that comes out of my mouth needs to be the real deal. Not that I ever try to be deceiving, but sometimes it takes a while to find your voice and find what you want to say.

  Steve Grand

  Real, Voice, Trying

  "EXCLUSIVE! The Real Deal: An Interview With Kickstarter King Steve Grand". Boy Culture Interview, www.boyculture.com. February 28, 2014.

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• Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

  William P. Young

  Self, Mind, Emotion

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• To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Nature, Intention

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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