Deceiving Quotes - Page 17

• 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 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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• 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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• Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Reason, Conscience

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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 more often than does nature.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Doe, Reason

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Truth, Character, Men

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.621

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• Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.

  Jon Jones

  Lying, Men, Evil

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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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• Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Lost, Charlatans, Cease

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Love, Men, Honest

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• Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Mean, Loss

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Zeal

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• There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

  Plato

  Integrity, Men, Hearing

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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