#deceiving

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#common sense #concern #deceiving #eyes #interested

We don't think of ourselves as 'unforgiving' or 'bitter'- those words imply that we are somehow personally responsible. We prefer to talk about how deeply we have been 'hurt', implying that we are merely helpless victims. Are those who have been deeply wounded destined to live damaged lives? Or is there real healing for deep hurt? I say there is. . . .We've also deceived ourselves into believing that we can love and serve God and be 'good Christians,' while failing to forgive. When are we going to get honest? ↗

— Byron Paulus

#forgiveness #truthful #forgiveness

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fashionable #imperative #into #join #madmen

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#calls #deceiving #others #romance #world

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#deceiving #fear #i #i do #inordinate

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#difficult #nothing #oneself

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#coming #deceiving #either #fathers #himself

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— Frances Cornford

#branch #consists #deceiving #friends #lying

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#deceiving #does #effect #executed #insincere

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. ↗

— Kofi Busia

#deceiving #diplomacy #friends #means #nearly