Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
“The path of truth is profound—and so are the obstacles and possibilities for self-deception.” — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Pauses and Lies can be basic parts of communication. That should be differentiated from deception. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I fooled everyone with a huge smile, for years and years. I never showed anyone my tears. — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“He could have a break at last, albeit a short one, one he sorely needed. And with that appealing thought he further… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion.… — Bernard Katz Copy Share Image
Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Lies come in many forms, ranging from slight exaggerations and likely excuses to complete fabrications. Their primary motivations are self-protection and self-exaltation.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The whole system of government needs remodeling & the failing system of capitalism needs replacing, reformation will fix neither & you know… — Deri Isaac Copy Share Image
There are people who lie like a great painter painting a masterpiece or a great author writing his or her greatest novel.… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler 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
“This was her original state; and then, as I was saying, and as the lovers of knowledge are well aware, philosophy, seeing… — Plato Copy Share Image
“This does not escape my notice, it is a context. I resent the fact of a context; my social status has shifted… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“In the theatre of deception, where shadows shift and alliances waver, the most challenging mask to unveil is the one that mirrors… — Abdulhamid Ali Copy Share Image
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality! — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“In a competition for mates, a well developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage, The same is true in politics and other… — John N. Gray Copy Share Image
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One of the most hurtful things you can do to someone is act like you care about them more than you really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end.” — Rachel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
A guy can make you think he loves you, but he really doesnt. A girl can make you think she doesnt love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Good bye" is a good gift when you wave it at me because I refuse to follow a bad advice you gave.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake” — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
It requires an effort of logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents is an instrument for freedom and elections are a… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
