Deception Quotes

574 Deception quotes by 429 unique authors

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves. — Unknown Author
We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent. — Oscar Wilde
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead. — Oscar Wilde
How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar? — Michael Josephson
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information. — Heather Brooke
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was… — Lewis Gordon Pugh
Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy… — David A. Bednar
Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship… — James E. Faust
Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to… — Maximillian Degenerez
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. — David Novak
All confrontation is based on deception. — Paul Watson
Lucifer is a master at gradual deception. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins. — Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. — Annie Jacobsen
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication,… — Robin Marantz Henig
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. — Javan
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. — Robert Motherwell
Politicians are masters of the art of deception. — Martin L. Gross
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them. — Charles Van Doren
Neuroscientists are novices at deception. — Teller
The point of painting is not really deception or imitation. — A. S. Byatt
If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and… — James Allen
Know that this world's life is only sport and play and gaiety and boasting among yourselves, and a vying in the multiplication of wealth and… — Quran
Wake up and smell the facism; The biggests terrorists are not on the streets they are in Government. — Wandini
Everyone has problems Some people are just better at hiding them than others. — Nikkie

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