“Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep. — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
“War is, at its crux, deception, Dama Khevat taught. A great leader must hold his deceit so close that even he himself… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
“They were Catholic, my lovers, All in an access of crossing themselves, Particularly their fingers Behind their suspendered backs-- And that was… — Shay Caroline Copy Share Image
Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“How can I grieve what is still in motion?" I ask her. "Shoes are still dropping all over the place. I´m not… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
“Deception was another phase of life, with betrayal at its heels; or sometimes, shining in its eyes.” — Michayla Roth Copy Share Image
deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes, great… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “Where’s the bathroom?”… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“We might erroneously believe that maitri is a way to find a happiness that lasts; as advertisements so seductively promise, we could… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The Point of Honor in Deception.—In all great deceivers one thing is noteworthy, to which they owe their power. In the actual… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. I didn't need to do this [run for… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in. — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
“Commitment felt impossible. Trust felt dangerous. Deception leaves a long shadow.” — SharLee Manson Copy Share Image