Quotes by Deception Patience protects you from deception A. R. Bernard protectprotect-youdeception Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. Aaron Hill deceptionvicesjoy 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? Abraham Joshua Heschel vanitydeceptionpeople The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases. Adrian Rogers bossdeceptiondarkness Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud. Aiden Wilson Tozer deceptionformself A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. Albert Einstein deceptionlibertypoison 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. Alexander Cockburn deceptionselfwar A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. Alexander Pushkin hostdeceptionlows An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods. Ambrose Bierce electiondeceptionauctions One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. Anais Nin deceptionhypocrisytruth It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. Anatole France talentdeceptiondeceiving Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky. Andrew Bird clichehonestdeception My pencil is like a fencer's foil. Andrew Wyeth foilspencilsdeception The only gratification that science denies to us is deception. Ann Druyan gratificationdenydeception We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. Antoine Lavoisier deceptionnaturescience Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything. Antonio Porchia deceptiontime There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Arthur Conan Doyle hypedeceptioninspirational We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception. Arthur Conan Doyle consistencydeceptionlooks If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity. Arthur Helps jealousdeceptionmay What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. irreverencedeceptionneeds1234567891011»
