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Tag Name "Deception" (379)

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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
John Tillotson
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Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
Johann Gottfried Seume
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Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Edwin Louis Cole
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The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.
Eric Alterman
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer
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We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.
Katha Pollitt
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Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.
Ivan Turgenev
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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.
Eugene Burger
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
Henrik Ibsen
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If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.
Errol Morris
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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Horace
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Self-deception is nature hypocrisy is art.
Mason Cooley
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
John Ruskin
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Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.
Janet Morris
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti
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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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Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.
Rembrandt
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He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.
Plautus
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We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.
Sidney Jourard
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It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
Teju Cole
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell
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