268 quotes found
“Higher education-I wonder how much longer the deception can go on.”
“The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.”
“How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?”
“Like antidepressants, a substantial part of the benefit of psychotherapy depends on a placebo effect, or as Moerman calls it, the meaning response. At least part of the improvement that is produced...”
“The genre of self-help for depression is littered with well-intentioned books that overpraise solutions and raise false hopes. It would be nice to defeat your depression in ten easy steps, but rare...”
“I tend to interpret that whole 'everyone's wife is a Mossad agent' thing in a more sort of metaphorical way--that people you're intimate with might be, like, 'double agents,' y'know? It's a weird k...”
“Fiction: a game of pretend.”
“To embellish reality with makeup, with silk and royal purple, isnt that what we all should be doing? Beneath the life we live every day the silk and the purple are hiding, waiting for us. A person ...”
“Fine words have the power to make even the stupidest person sound intelligent.”
“History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.”
“I trust people with my eyes and ears wide open.”
“Never trust a person whose smile doesn't reach their eyes, chances are they do similar thing when they "cry" - Just be sure you have that OSCAR ready next time they do this”
“When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.”
“Where there is SMOKE there is usually FIRE. Believe NONE of what you hear and HALF of what you SEE!”
“They taught the women that the home is a shame and in doing so, they successfully decomposed nations. Instead of it being the greatest honour to build a family, it became a laughingstock. And in th...”
“Li Gui called out, "Sir, if you kill me you will kill two persons.""How do you make that out?" asked Li Kui, staying the blow."At home I support my mother who is ninety years of age, and this is my...”
“What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenityAnd the wisdom of age? Had they deceived usOr deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,Bequeathi...”
“Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?”
“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
“Deception sneaks in through the window of pride.”
