#deception

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't. ↗

— Shane Warne

#cricket #deception #spin-bowling #sport #art

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #deception #eyes #fortitude

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare. ↗

— Malcolm X

#deception #democracy #hypocrisy #liberty #oppression

A snake bites your ankle. Recoiling, you scream. Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream... ...where a man bites your ankle. Expecting no guile, "Again," softly falls from your lips with a smile. Yet, the man and the snake are the same. Your perception is only to blame. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#judgement #perception #poetry #richelle #richelle-goodrich

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#education

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #honesty #lying #potential #self-deception

There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his imagination has foolishly taken of women, is fanning the flames within himself -- and, since the woman knows nothing about it, she is not to blame. For if a man incites himself to drown, and will not restrain himself, it is not the water's fault. ↗

— John Gower

#clichés #deceit #delusion #discrimination #double-standards

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#against #bulwark #deception #even #god

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#certainly #deal #deception #enough #full

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception. ↗

— Bernard Katz

#been #birth #care #deception #display