Deception Quotes

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It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win. — Janet Morris
After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes… — William J. Clinton
You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others… — Francis Frangipane
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things… — Francis Bacon
Even good people are obliged to deceive. — Greg LeMond
Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers. — Luc de Clapiers
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by… — Franz Kafka
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. — Horace
It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life is the art of being well deceived. — William Hazlitt
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. — Samuel Johnson
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. — Mason Cooley
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale. — Samuel Johnson
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We like to be deceived. — Blaise Pascal
Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort. — Bobby Bowden
If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on… — Orson Pratt

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