Best 481 quotes in «deceit quotes» category

What's unfortunate is that some people in your life may not wish the absolute worst for you, but they certainly don't want you to have the best. What's fortunate is that those people reveal themselves fairly easily.

When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves.

When laying out a quote on deceit one must not be bias as to always use the term him by a female nor her by a male.

When laying out a quote on deceit, one must not be bias by using the term him from a female nor her from a male. then they them self are giving a false impression!

When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.

When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!

When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

Where there are kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed), there is worldly life. As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed exist; one is a sansaari [living a worldly life] regardless of whether one is an ascetic or a family man. And where anger-pride-deceit-greed are absent, one is regarded as being asansaari [non-worldly], be he an ascetic or a family man.

Where anger-pride-deceit-greed is absent, the worldly interactions are pure. Or else, if there is attentive awareness [upayog] over them, till then it is acceptable.

Where there is deceit [kapat], there is a beating and insult is the ‘fruit’ of self-pride [maan]. This is ‘our’ discovery.

Wilderness begins with disconnections. It continues with deceit

Whispering can disguise the shape of syllables, but not of mood.

​Who gets to Live? You or Your Rules?

Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. As for women, this sort of reciprocal deceit cancels itself out, for when love enters in, both parties are usually dupes

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart? Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigue...is it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved?

Wrong assumptions occur from limited knowledge. A person should have a complete view before shaping an opinion about someone or something.

You can learn things from a heart so bleeding When love bargains with deceitful pleading Hours soar from dawn to dawn splitting your time Don’t hear melody from a soundless chime

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him. People are aware that this low-bred fellow, who deserves to be pilloried, has, by the dirtiest jobs, made his way in the world; and that the splendid position he has acquired makes merit repine and virtue blush. Yet whatever dishonourable epithets may be launched against him everywhere, nobody defends his wretched honour. Call him a rogue, an infamous wretch, a confounded scoundrel if you like, all the world will say “yea, ” and no one contradicts you. But for all that, his bowing and scraping are welcome everywhere; he is received, smiled upon, and wriggles himself into all kinds of society; and, if any appointment is to be secured by intriguing, he will carry the day over a man of the greatest worth. Zounds! these are mortal stabs to me, to see vice parleyed with; and sometimes times I feel suddenly inclined to fly into a wilderness far from the approach of men.

Women have an encircling wall of deceit around them; therefore, they are not aware of deception, it is their natural attribute. Men have the entanglement of egoism; egoism does not let them see that entanglement. After attaining the Knowledge of the Self, men have to keep ‘seeing’ the egoism and the women have to keep seeing the deceit.

You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.

Your husband certainly love money,' she said. 'That is no lie Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.

Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.

A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

All of what the government said is lies upon lies.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

By holding to the first woman, the first black, the first homosexual, the first transgender, the first native American, the first whatever, there is also something else more hideous that is woven into this intricate web of deceit, and that is the built-in excuse to why they might or will fail. It's because America is unjust. When you have the first woman to do something, the media questions, "Why haven't there been more?" Well, America is unfair, unjust, bigoted, sexist, and misogynistic.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.