#deception

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. ↗

— Jane Austen

#honesty #relationships #truth #relationships

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lying #self-deception #vision #visionaries #vision

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#fools #self-deception #truth #willful-blindness #willful-ignorance

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#attention

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#lies #life #truth #life

Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place. ↗

— Denise Hildreth Jones

#bahamas #deception #friendship #natural-hurricanes #second-chances

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#art #beautiful #become #deception #events

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#deception #greatest #opinions #own #suffer

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#big #deception #flowing #god #his

Politicians are masters of the art of deception. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#deception #masters #politicians