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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

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.

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

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Patience protects you from deception

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

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

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

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

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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.

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

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

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

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

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

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.

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-deception helps us deceive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.

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

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

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

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.

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.

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

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

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

the constant shower of the sun's mane erases the footprints on thin ice do not fear deception for the world lies atop deception ~Toushiro Hitsugaya

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

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.