Deception Quotes
The drinking parent lied to the sober parent
There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion...
Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.
With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.
Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.
Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.
Lies are like anchovies in a Caesar salad. You may not be able to see them, but your soul knows they are there.
Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated.
Unfinished promises are the one thing we’ll always have to live with.
Greed, corruption, violence, sin, deception all come from a lack of understanding that we’re all connected.
but sometimes deception is needed not to hurt the ones we care for.
I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine
Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.
If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.
Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.
The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.
I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.
Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.
At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.
Frankie raised an eyebrow. Look at you getting all sentimental. You know where to find me.Delaney nodded. That doesn’t mean you want to be found. Come on. One drink.
It is a perfect deception when you can lie to yourself and believe it. You cannot love two people the same. One will always fall by the shadows…even if that one is you.
It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.
Some people take what they need from the orchard, and other people pick the orchard clean."From - "The Mind Game Company - The Players
Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?
…If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero, ' said Lalu.- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters.
Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?
The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.
No man is exempted from the subtle deception of doctrinal drift – the man of God expects this temptation.
But this is deception. It’s moving very fast, and just because you can’t see and feel it, doesn’t mean it’s not the truth.
For you, it’s all about money, money, money. But what about the forests I say? Some of those trees have been there for hundreds of years. What right have you to destroy that?
A genius is no more—and no less—than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.