Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened. — Lester Cole Copy Share Image
There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
“Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins. — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best policy. Unless, of course, you're posting a Facebook Profile picture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to me how technology has in many ways facilitated and refined the practice of deception” — Suzanne Rindell Copy Share Image
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Betrayal annihilates trust. The more trust there is to begin with, and the more deception is involved, the more damage is done.” — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our… — Djayawarman Alamprabu Copy Share Image
The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
“If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“one might argue that the Mandeville author’s original deception was not a simple trick for its own sake, but rather that it… — Iain Macleod Higgins Copy Share Image
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy of the desirability, or otherwise, of telling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“The essence of the art of war is deception. If able, fake inability; if close by, make believe you are far away.… — Sergei Kostin Copy Share Image
I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The ship's surgeon was a spotty unshaven little man whose clothes, arrayed with smudges, drippings, and cigarette burns, were held about him… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Deception and perfection are wonderful traits One will breed love The other hate” — Marina Diamandis Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“but sometimes deception is needed not to hurt the ones we care for.” — Astrid Yrigollen Copy Share Image
