Deception Quotes - Page 7

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.

Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple

Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

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.

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

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

We like to be deceived.

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

Life is the art of being well deceived.