Best 691 quotes in «deception quotes» category

My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “Where’s the bathroom?” and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

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.

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

Patience protects you from deception

Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Police have both extra constraints and extra permissions - on the one hand, they can't dodge involvement in social disorder as the rest of us can and they may be required to conduct themselves privately in a way that does not undermine their public authority; on the other hand, they have permission to engage in deceptions, invasions of privacy and uses of force that are forbidden to the rest of us. But this does not put them beyond common morality.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Self-deception helps us deceive.

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism.

See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literature: "I'll take a drink tomorrow." I actually don't think that's necessarily a very helpful maxim in AA, but it's a very good maxim in showing how strategic self-deception can be employed, even self-consciously. That's the amazing thing, to me, about self-deception.