Deception Quotes

• Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Moving
  • Liar
  • Liars

• Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

  

  Sophocles
  • Sweet
  • Deception
  • Profit

• When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Reality
  • Perception
  • Humility

• In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

  

  Michael Musto
  • Alternatives
  • Exhausted
  • Resorts

• Beauty is a mute deception.

  

  Theophrastus
  • Deception

• Men still have to be governed by deception.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Men
  • Deception

• A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

  

  Dennis Sharp
  • Truth
  • Hearing
  • Convince

• Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

  

  Marco Tempest
  • Real
  • Art
  • Truth

• Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

  

  David Novak
  • Deception

• For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the deception, to the duplicity. It is the structure of an affair - not the sexual or emotional behavior or what people actually are doing.

  

  Esther Perel
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Lying

• 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.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Engineering
  • Deception
  • Manipulation

• A goal which is infinitely remote is not a goal at all, it is a deception.

  

  Colin Ward
  • Goal
  • Deception
  • Remote

• It is nothing short of deception and lies to portray this deal as strengthening the union (between Northern Ireland and Britain), ... complete and total sellout of our province.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Short
  • Deception
  • Portray

• The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Safety
  • Middle
  • Misunderstanding

• As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Time
  • Words
  • Myself

• Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Temptation

• An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Character
  • Free
  • Agreements

• "There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Tears
  • Proofs
  • Slyness

• The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are manifesting reality to an ever-increasing extent- our collective shadow-projections of wasteful technologies, wars, and weaponry reflect subtler interior regions of our psyche and the discordant deceptions in our intimate relationships. If this interpretation is valid, it forces upon us a concomitant responsibility, a grave burden.

  

  Daniel Pinchbeck
  • War
  • Reality
  • Responsibility

• Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Deception
  • Bridges
  • Narcissism

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

  

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson
  • Assumption
  • Deception
  • Susceptible

• Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

  

  Alexei Panshin
  • Ability
  • Maturity
  • Accepted

• 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.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Century
  • Remains
  • Billboards

• 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.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • World
  • Darkness
  • Prince

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