Best 691 quotes in «deception quotes» category

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.

It is still difficult for many to believe that a deception of such magnitude is possible. Deceptions and false declarations have ben the standard in the politics of the powerful, and certainly are in Israel's policy toward the Palestinians from the start.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and hearing, but never even trying to do what they hear!

It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.

Jack and Jill ran up the hill, both for a little fun. Jack's plan was deception while Jill sought affection. And Jack wouldn't quit till he won.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

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.

Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.