Quotes About Being Fooled

#1. In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining ... . We demand this fraud be stopped.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. Don't you know? Adam wondered. He, at least, could still smell diesel fuel on his hands. Don't you know what I am?
But this flock of peacocks was too busy fooling to notice they were being fooled.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled.

Neil Gaiman

#4. Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.

Sakyong Mipham

#5. When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

Theodor Adorno

#7. A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.

Raymond Chandler

#8. And if you had the right sort of mind, the sort of mind that actually sees what it looks at, you might notice that his eyes were odd. If your mind had the rare talent of not being fooled by its own expectations, you might notice something else about them, something strange and wonderful.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#10. Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.

Sue Grafton

#11. I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.

Arthur C. Clarke

#12. Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#13. A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone

Larry David

#14. I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.

Greg Rucka

#15. Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me.

Stefano Pilati

#16. There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

Garth Nix

#17. Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

Amitav Ghosh

#18. I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -that history is a protective armor against being misled.

Howard Zinn

#19. Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.

Margaret Truman

#20. People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.

Seth Godin

#21. To love God with our hearts and our minds, let's resolve to glorify God by not being women who fool others or who are easily fooled ourselves. Avoiding a bad thought day depends on it.

Patty Houser

#22. I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.

Woody Norris

#23. The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

Dick Costolo

#24. The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.

Leigh Brackett

#25. Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.

Ken Harrelson

#26. I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.

Ezra Taft Benson

#27. The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#28. I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

Criss Angel

#29. I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.

Lapo Elkann