Deception Quotes - Page 5

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

Understand now what lying is. Any species of designed deception. If the deception is not designed it is not lying. But if you design to make an impression contrary to the naked truth, you lie.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

Compromise is the door through which deception enters.

All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

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

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.