"Who naught suspects is easily deceived."

-- Petrarch

#Deceived Quotes

“I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.”

Source : Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.
“Flowers are my music.”
“The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”
“He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one more. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about, he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it.”
“I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.”
“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
“As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!”

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