Deceiving Quotes - Page 7

• Color deceives continuously.

  Josef Albers

  Color

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• We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Communication, People

  "Lessons of the Moscow Uprising". Proletary, No. 2, August 29, 1906. Collected Works, Volume 11, pp. 174, www.marxists.org.

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• Even good people are obliged to deceive.

  Greg LeMond

  People, Deception, Obliged

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• It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deception, Easy

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• The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Judgment, Senses

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• I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

  Agatha Christie

  Agatha Christie “Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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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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• Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mistake, Yield, Suffering

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

  John Irving

  Hurt, Deceived, Been Hurt

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• And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.

  Patrick Ness

  Song, Promise, One Day

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• He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across the palace, and they'd ignored it. If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, Eddisian soldiers on the move. He'd meant to deceive them, and he'd succeeded. It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Pain, Moving

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• 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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• Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

  Rene Descartes

  Deceived Us, Prudent, Accepted

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• Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Animal

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• Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Believe, Wish

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• Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Art, Thinking

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• One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

  Vernon Howard

  Hurt, Revenge, Ideas

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• When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few, the wealthy will not mock the poor, the honored will not disdain the humble, and the cunning will not deceive the simple.

  Motsi Mabuse

  Love, Strong, Humble

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deceiving Others, Deception, Tears

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

  Rafael Trujillo

  Doe, Know How, Knows

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• That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Deception, Doe, Harm

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• Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

  Wes Fesler

  Honesty, Lying, Safety

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