Deception Quotes
574 quotes by 429 authors
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The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
— Albert Einstein
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But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during…
— Hippocrates
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Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is…
— Pema Chodron
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A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
— Sun Tzu
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All war is based on deception.
— Sun Tzu
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All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.
— Sun Tzu
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Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception.…
— James E. Faust
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Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot…
— Albertus Magnus
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This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.
— Unknown Author
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
— Unknown Author
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Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
— Johann Gottfried Seume
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
— Unknown Author
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The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest…
— Unknown Author
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Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not…
— Philip Warren Anderson
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Drawing is deception.
— M.C. Escher
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The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.
— George Carlin
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James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it…
— Marco Tempest
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Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and…
— Timothy Ball
Who Wrote These Deception Quotes
429 authors contributed a total of 574 Deception Quotes, led by these top contributors: