Quotes by Deception An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception. John Bevere breedersdeceptionheart The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. Johann Kaspar Lavater deceptiontoo-shortheart Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe deceptionhonestychildren Police have both extra constraints and extra permissions - on the one hand, they can't dodge involvement in social disorder as the rest of us can and they may be required to conduct themselves privately in a way that does not undermine their public authority; on the other hand, they have permission to engage in deceptions, invasions of privacy and uses of force that are forbidden to the rest of us. But this does not put them beyond common morality. John Kleinig moralitydeceptionpolice In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire. John le Carre deceptionpracticematter If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer. John Maynard Keynes deceptiongovernmentmoney If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception. John Piper biblicaldeceptionorder 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. John F. Kennedy deceptionriskrace The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. John Tillotson hypedeceptionart The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are. Jon Krakauer deceptionstruggleself Empire of Deception is a sure thing--a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has found a fascinating yet little-known jazz-age tale and told it with style and smarts. Get in on the action. Jonathan Eig smartdeceptionbook Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. Joseph O'Neill deceptionwritinglying If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address. Joshua Reynolds deceptioneyeart The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more. Judith Martin audiencedeceptioncheer If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours. Joyce Meyer deceptiondoorsenemy Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. Karen Horney deceptionselfmay An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage. Karl Jaspers deceptionselfideas I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred? Karen Marie Moning deceptionselftwo 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. Katha Pollitt deceptionlyingthinking The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception. Kathleen Hall Jamieson assumptiondeceptionbelieve«4567891011121314»
