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  • We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.

  • You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.

  • Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest, limited monarchies; but all republics, all governments of law, must impose numerous limitations and qualifications of authority, and give many positive and many qualified rights.

    Rights   Government   Law  
    Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, with a Critical Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.83
  • Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

    Events   Reason   Social  
  • Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do? Be strong and of a good courage. Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes. . . . If death ends all, we cannot meet death better.

    Strong   Thinking   Snow  
    Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.353
  • Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

  • The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

    John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”
  • Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

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

    "Overcoming My Archie Bunker Prejudice" by Jean Stapleton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013.
  • Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

  • Vodka is a very deceptive drink, because you drink it and you think, "What is this? This is pointless! It's - you can't taste it, you can't smell it... Why did we waste our money on this, bloody - why are we on a traffic island?"

    Smell   Taste   Drink  
    "Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.
  • As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

    Skills   Hype   Acting  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • As a John Kerry supporter, I wanted to send him a check. But then it occurred to me that most of that money would end up in the hands of advertising agencies and television networks. And the money would be used to create deceptive commercials that flatter our point of view and shade the facts our way. And I wasn't comfortable with that. But on the other hand, that's how the game is played. You're always grappling.

    Agency   Views   Hands  
    Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
  • I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

    Lying   Ideas   Deceit  
  • The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

    Men   Data   Religion  
    "Another New Fan". Swift, archive.randi.org. September 02, 2005.
  • Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

  • Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

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

    Hammers   Bears   Admire  
    "Bijak". Sakhi, 168. Translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya based on that of Puran Sahib,
  • Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and success in business are deceptive. If we die tomorrow they will disappear tomorrow, and nothing will be left for our future. Wisdom, however, will never deceive us.

  • Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.45, Criss Jami
  • There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

    Teaching   Pride   Proud  
  • It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.

  • 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.

    Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.39, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • 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.

    Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human mind. What did I say! It is not a Science for a methodical mind. It is a shapeless assemblage of inaccurate ideas, of observations often puerile, of deceptive remedies, and of formulae as fantastically conceived as they are tediously arranged.

  • One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

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

    Real   Hype   People  
  • 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.

    Believe   Self   Way  
  • As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

    Air   Usual   Deceptive  
    Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Death in Ecstasy: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #4”, p.192, Felony & Mayhem Press
  • 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.

    Class   Adults   Done  
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