Deception Quotes

574 Deception quotes by 429 unique authors

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low,… — Nawal El Saadawi
The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion… — Baruch Spinoza
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. — Andre Gide
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion. — Frank Herbert
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. — Karen Horney
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth,… — Marcus Aurelius
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. — George Eliot
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations.… — Mortimer Adler
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time… — Soren Kierkegaard
The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making you say all… — Ellen Hopkins
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. — Alexander Pushkin
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost… — Sam Harris
What else exhausts like sustained deception? — Leif Enger
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm… — Jonathan Franzen
the constant shower of the sun's mane erases the footprints on thin ice do not fear deception for the world lies atop deception ~Toushiro Hitsugaya — Tite Kubo
Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his… — Mark Twain
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to… — Steven Pinker
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is… — Ludwig von Mises
The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique. — David Byrne
I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24) — P. C. Cast
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that,… — Ann Druyan

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