Deception Quotes - Page 9

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.

Djayawarman Alamprabu

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

James Robertson

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

Greg Cox

A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

Charlotte Armstrong

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

George R.R. Martin

There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter...

Israelmore Ayivor

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

René Descartes

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

Ashly Lorenzana

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Sun Tzu

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

Alberto Moravia

At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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