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Tag Name "Deception" (252)

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Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.
James Jesus Angleton
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
Terry Brooks
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Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power
Robert Greene
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Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.
Thomas Sowell
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Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
Jennifer Chiaverini
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Deception is everywhere.
Jim Sanborn
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deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.
Harriet Lerner
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Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.
Janet Morris
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Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple
Mark Rowlands
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
Zhuangzi
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
Vladimir Lenin
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Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!
Walel Watson
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There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.
Walter Lippmann
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The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
Wes Fesler
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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt
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I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.
William James
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Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.
Xenophanes
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Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
Charles Dudley Warner
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As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.
Ala Bashir
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Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them. You look at family life and child rearing as God looks at them. You interpret current events as God would interpret them. You see the truth even though all around you are deception and lies.
Charles R. Swindoll
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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 every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
Alexander Cockburn
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It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.
Christian Scriver
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