Deceive Quotes

“Darkness exaggerates the size of a spark.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The world would be a better place if even a fraction of us became the kinds of people we have deceived others into believing we are.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We can pretend that we’re living life. But we will never be able to pretend that the outcome of such pretending will be anything less than the death of our pretending.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The best way to fool someone is to make them believe that you actually said something.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The truth might hurt, but it is never your enemy.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A stab from a friend cuts deeper than a stab from a foe.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Many a man once started a friendship with a woman just to get into her life, with the sole intention of making her his girlfriend as soon as he could.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“What people want to hear are often the things that soothe them against what they need to hear.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It's inevitable that people who are trying to manipulate, persuade or deceive us in their own interests would try to pretend that they are driven by...the finest expressions of our common humanity - altruism, compassion and kindness. [p63]”
― Hugh Mackay, The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism

“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I talk a lot about the value of lust in my book. No, don't freak out! The concept is simply about helping you understand the psychology of being an irresistible woman. There is more to life when we learn how to see lust as a tool of wisdom rather than as the devil's most favorite weapon to deceive and destroy the world. This is the next level of thinking. Are you ready for a paradigm shift?”
― Lebo Grand

“Dead people don't haunt you.
Your own neglects haunt you.
//Why People Feel Miserable”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“We sometimes benefit way more from being lied to than the person lying to us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Do not deceive yourself by trusting in what is worthless.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A free mind, is your best freedom.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The best way to engage the fool is to do nothing that would cause them to believe that we are otherwise. For then, the fool becomes the fooled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Looks can be deceiving, especially good ones.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Deceive not thyself.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Never be a blind follower of any people in your life. Because, whatever people demonstrate themselves outside, in reality they may the opposite inside. Always judge the facts or situation by using your own intuition and work accordingly. You will never be deprived and deceived by others in your life.”
― Lord Robin

“You said you have a soul, you deceived yourself; you said there was life after death, you deceived yourself; you followed the priest, you followed the imam, you followed the rabbi, you ran after the gurus, you always deceived yourself! You betrayed yourself and humanity for not understanding the truth! And what's left in your hand in the end? A fake happiness and perishment!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Just because we chose to reject the truth doesn't mean that such an option was actually available to us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You cannot fool some nations with only the truths! They believe in whatever you say outside of the truth! They are only deceived by things that are not real!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“for how long can shadows deceive?
tomorrow, draw the curtain in hope
forget the footfall, see the crimson
look out for no reason, you’ll have it.”
― Abhijit Sarmah, Dying With A Little Patience: Poems

“You can doubt but can't decieve God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is a matter on my conscience which I cannot excuse but may as well confess. To deceive a maiden is a very sore thing, so sore that it had made us all hot against Constantine; but it may be doubted by a cool mind whether it is worse, nay, whether it is not more venial than to contrive the murder of a lawful wife. Poets have paid more attention to the first offence – maybe they know more about it – the law finds greater employment, on the whole, in respect to the second.”
― Anthony Hope, Phroso

“When athletes are deceived about the amount of suffering that remains, perceived effort and exercise tolerance change.”
― Simon Marshall, The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

“If the truth hurt you, it was because it is helping you avoid the greater pain of the lie that you’re about to tell.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don't be deceived, doubt not.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If what we want doesn’t stand up to the truth, we will likely demand that it kneel to the lies of our truth.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough