Deception Quotes - Page 10

Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.

My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

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

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

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

When your art fails, make better art.

It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

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

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

Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.

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

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

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.

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.

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.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who excuse themselves with the expression, "That is politics; nor can you be responsible for deception in others. But you are responsible for yourself! There are no collective panaceas - only individual ones."

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

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

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.

Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this condition. To surmise was not to conquer, of course; he was as helpless as ever but there was a dim liberation in seeing how he had been lied to, and he felt that at least he could take one thing from the terrible years through which he had come: he was free of self-delusion.

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.