The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception. — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
“Maintain your integrity! Live life in such a way that when another person tells his or her truth, you'll not be committed… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Sometimes the right person for you was there all along. You just didn't see it because the wrong person was blocking your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we're on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Behind many smiles hide rivers of tears! Never be fooled by a smile! Sometimes people who laugh the most in our presence...Are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“If misinformation is inaccurate information, and disinformation is deliberate falsehoods — what's a simple way to remember the difference? 'Mis' for mistake,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“I know that stating these facts can be painful or even enraging to some women who have not breastfed their children, but… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The smile of a deceiver is flawed, insufficient. But can we see these muscles resting there inert when there's so much local… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“What was to be the value of the long looked forward to, Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenity And the wisdom… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
What is the most fascinating kind of self-deception to me, and a kind that isn't necessarily unhealthy, is what Friedrich Nietzsche called… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
“I am replete with stamina in finding out every single fact I can about this whole affair. Yet, I think, do I… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
I think that internet technologies are making everything so transparent. The arms race of deception and spin against the public trying to… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'... — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream,… — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
“A lifestyle of deception is hard to keep up if your clones aren’t willing to participate.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Sadly, our values are fast eroding. Modesty and honesty are ridiculed. Deception and cheating are on the rise. May the Almighty protect… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
No matter how beautiful a lie is, in the end it hurts even more than the truth would have done. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire. — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No secrets, deception for these would tear this down. I'll note the past spare the pain. — All That Remains Copy Share Image
“The heart will find solace after a lost love, but once the soul is betrayed and broken it will always bleed and… — Camelia C Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“Don’t be deceived by the spirit of complacency and think you have achieved enough. Try to become better than you’ve been.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.” — Bethany L. Brand Copy Share Image
