Deception Quotes - Page 3

Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Patience protects you from deception

If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or self-deception-without a fundamental faith experience-then this would be a much greater miracle than the resurrection itself.

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

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

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

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

To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.

A lie cannot live.

Love cannot reconcile with deception

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

Beauty is a mute deception.

The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

Drawing is deception.