Deception Quotes

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

People’s feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in people’s eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Compromise is the door through which deception enters.

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

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

All war is deception.

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.