Quotes on Bluffs

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.

After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.