Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me."
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Disguise
77 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
"Language disguises thought."
John Adams
Founding Father, Politician
"Every problem is an opportunity in disguise."
Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise."
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"A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise."
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"Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise."
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"Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise."
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"Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend."
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"Scars are wisdom in disguise."
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"It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought."
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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
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"Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret."
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"Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic."
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"The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves."
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"We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor."
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"It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength."
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"Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation."
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"In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises."
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