Deception Quotes
Deception Quote of the day
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.
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.
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
