Deception Quotes · Page 19

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

— Ben Aaronovitch

Sometimes your heart can be your worst enemy because it can and sometimes will deceive you.

— Tanaisha Hicks

“Faith has always struck him as either a tremendous gift or an appalling deception, depending on whether there’s a God or not.”

— nick harkaway

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

— Adelbert von Chamisso

“felt the depth of my deception. What had happened to my self-respect? My integrity?”

— Diane Chamberlain

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

— Joseph O'Neill

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

— David Byrne

“Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?”

— Cynthia Ozick

The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making…

— Ellen Hopkins

I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems…

— Lauryn Hill

“Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt…

— Terry Goodkind

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives…

— Grenville Kleiser

To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,…

— Walter Keane

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and…

— Ron Livingston

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military,…

— Eric Alterman

“ You get what you give," we will tell his sorry, selfish ass." The Betty Lady has spoken. I detect a Bronx…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Look around you, he says, waving a hand at the surrounding tables. Not a one of them even has an inkling of…

— Erin Morgenstern

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The…

— Steven Pinker

“Security means the state of being free from danger or threat. Danger means the possibility of suffering harm or injury. The possibility…

— Angelica Hopes

“At the edge of the field Silva and Stefan witnessed heartrending images in greyscale as thousands of desperate refugees streamed down the…

— John Payton Foden

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Thus Epicurus also, when he designs to destroy the natural fellowship of mankind, at the same time makes use of that which…

— Epictetus

It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these…

— Richard Carrier

“To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.”

— Shinichi Suzuki

“The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will…

— Micheal Rivers

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

— Todd Solondz

I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

— Anonymous

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

— James Robertson

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

— Joyce Meyer

“The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense; it is not God.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas." ( "The devil's finest trick is to persuade…

— Charles Baudelaire

“It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.”

— Anthony Liccione

“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Pretending that you're very busy talking over phone when you see someone you want to avoid or don't want to talk to.

— Raghav Singh

“It's about deception - about the masks we wear as faces, and the faces we wear as masks.”

— Tanith Morse

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness…

— Veronica Roth

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the…

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Carl Sagan