Deceptive Quotes

Deceptive Quote of the day

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Appearances are deceptive.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again.

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.