That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. - Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself. - Criss Jami
You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work. - Don Roff
It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people’s invisible sicknesses and disorders and scribbling them on the clipboard at the end of my bed to fool the nurses; so I can indulge in rest cures all day, every day. That I’m even fooling myself. - Jalina Mhyana
When we buy books we're fooling ourselves into thinking we buy the time to read them. - Gerard VanDerleun
She is the ocean, gentle, smooth and calm on the surface…I am the fooling diver, braving her deep, dark, dangerous depth… - Dinesh Kumar Biran
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. - Richard Feynman
Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me. - Vironika Tugaleva
Lie to yourself if you want, but you’re not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn’t really want it. - Steve Maraboli