Deceit Quotes

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.

Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

Don't starve an instinct with a lie on, Never hit or deceive a wounded lion. He heals faster than you can imagine And hurts even more when in famine.

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don’t know who we are in reality

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.

Dream It, Believe In It, And Achieve It.

The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.

We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our lives.

To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.

Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.

Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if one does not have ‘knowledge of True Self’ (realization of the self), then he ‘charges’ new karmas within.

Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times

A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge - that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she might be.

Failure is blessing wrapped in the clothing of curse.

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.

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.

Some human beings in their craftiness thought they can pretend to be good when they are actually bad.

The darkness of sin is a cords of deceit.

The darkness always lies.

True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.

Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

Why am I letting you comfort me?” He stared over her head. Because I’ve made sure you have no one else to turn to.

No one answer is ever the answer.

Don't hate the game, hate the player... the player should have known better than to play the game in the first place.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

All the social ills thatlaw presumes to correct exist because people are not free tolearn and grow.

Honesty is love but deception is hatred.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.

Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.

Sometimes more is hidden behind a truth than a pack of lies.

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’

I so want to believe him, but right now even his touch feels like a lie.

You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.