Browsing Topic Best Deception Quotes

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

I don’t think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.

The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path…. When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can’t give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.

Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers — and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

The easiest person to deceive is one’s self.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don’t get you

The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

A dolphin’s smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they’re always happy.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I’ve ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don’t train properly, you’ll die.

Integrity makes my job easier. It’s deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

A tyranny based on … deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in the way of brains. They are very ordinary professional men, and all they know is their own trade, just like all other professional men. There are some geniuses among them, just as there are mental giants in any other field of endeavor.