Deception Quotes

574 quotes by 429 authors

Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very… — Guy Finley
Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. — Hugo Black
The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths… — Pope John Paul II
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception. — Thomas Carlyle
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter… — Alexander Cockburn
Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre… — Jacques Vallee
If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the… — Richard Serra
All martial arts is simply an honest expression of one's body - with a lot of deception in between. — Bruce Lee
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred. — Carl Sagan
These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught… — Carl Sagan
Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are… — Joni Mitchell
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either. — Van Dyke Parks
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge. — Teju Cole
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception. — Friedrich August von Hayek
To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through… — Blaise Pascal
As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the… — Vaclav Havel
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in… — Robert A. Heinlein

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