Deception Quotes

574 Deception quotes by 429 unique authors

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. — Unknown Author
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. — Johann Gottfried Seume
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. — Unknown Author
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
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
Drawing is deception. — M.C. Escher
The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out. — George Carlin
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
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
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
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

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