Deception Quotes
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I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
Charles Van Doren -
Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.
Xenophanes
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Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process.
Mary Daly -
The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
A. S. Byatt -
The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
R. C. Sproul -
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.
David Brin -
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
L. E. Modesitt -
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
Major Owens
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Success depended once again on speed and deception, qualities that residents of the Shenandoah Valley were beginning to associate with Thomas Jackson.
S. C. Gwynne -
Precognition or self-deception?
Tanith Lee -
For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.
Margaret Keane -
Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?
Charles Reade -
World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.
David Ignatius -
The joy of 'The X-files' is how it plays on so many different realities never knowing what is the truth and what is the deception. So my approach to my character has always been that we are alive and have always been alive and were never 'killed off' but held a fake funeral in 'Jump the Shark' to get the heat off of us.
Dean Haglund
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I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
H. G. Wells -
Deception is everywhere.
James Sanborn -
The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.
Ann Druyan -
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.
T. S. Eliot -
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.
Thomas Sowell
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It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
Annie Jacobsen -
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci -
First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.
John F. Kennedy