Deception Quotes
Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.
Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.
in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.
If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.
I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.
The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.
I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.