Best 481 quotes in «deceit quotes» category

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

The pictures from the first professional photo session that the young David Beckham submitted himself to are extraordinary. He has a barely suppressed smile, as though he and the cameraman are complicit in the understanding that this is not yet David Beckham we see and that there is an element of deceit in selling the photographs as such

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

They mislead the unwitting masses.

The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.

Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are looking to the West because they know that's where success lies.