Quotes About Not Being Fooled

#1. 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

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

Amitav Ghosh

#3. I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.

Paul Auster

#4. Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.

Stephanie Garber

#5. Percy," Chiron said, his voice impossibly soft. "The titan Kronos is my father.

Rick Riordan

#6. The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.

Roald Dahl

#7. And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Michelle Pfeiffer

#9. 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

#10. I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

Ben Bernanke

#11. How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?

Stanley Kunitz

#12. Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

Doug Aitken

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

Sakyong Mipham

#14. One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.

John O'Donohue

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Raymond Chandler

#19. 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

#20. History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#21. These were the things we would never notice were missing.

Kate Chisman

#22. 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

#23. Her motherly instinct told her that there was too much of something in Natasha, and that it would prevent her from being happy.

Leo Tolstoy

#24. my lips remain shut because there will never be words for this moment.

Tahereh Mafi

#25. 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

#26. 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.

#27. Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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