Fooling Quotes

“Recently I interviewed a psychopath. This is always a humbling experience because it teaches over and over how much of human motivation and experience is outside my narrow range. Despite the psychopath's lack of conscience and lack of empathy for others, he is inevitably better at fooling people than any other type of offender. I suppose conscience just slows you down. A child convicted molester, this particular one made friends with a correctional officer who invited him to live in his home after he was released - despite the fact the officer had a nine-year-old daughter.
The officer and his wife were so taken with the offender that, after the offender lived with them for a few months, they initiated adoption proceedings- adoption for a man almost their age. Of course, he was a child molester living in the same house as a child. Not surprisingly, he molested the daughter the entire time he lived there. [...]
What these experiences taught have me is that even when people are warned of a previously founded case of even a conviction, they still routinely underestimate the pathology with which they are dealing.”
― Anna Salter, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders

“At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.”
― Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

“People don't practice their smiles nearly enough, so when they most need to look happy they're not fooling anyone.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Zombie

“Fool me once, shame on you
fool me twice, shame on me
fool me thrice, I'm gonna get the frying pan!”
― Anthony Liccione

“Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

“Resentment lies in the heart of fools.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Only fools will be invested in the downfall of someone, rather than being invested in their own uprising.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A dead Zhuge scares away a living Zhongda.”
― Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms (4 Volumes)