Deceiving Quotes

• Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hype, People, Doe

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Life, Deceived Us

  "A Happy Death" by Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, 1972.

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• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Pride, Average

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• What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Truth, Differences, Marketing

  Discovery (published 1964).

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• Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Deception, Investing, Difficult

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.

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• Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, People, Criticism

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• The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Essence, Political

  John Ruskin (1910*). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  Maimonides

  Liars, Lying, Book

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• One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Liars, Lying, Philosophical

  "The Prince".

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• It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Hype, Judging, May

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• He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

  Horace

  Lying, Father, Deceiving Others

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• Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

  Hugo Black

  Responsibility, Government, Land

  "New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 1873, supreme.justia.com. June 30, 1971.

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• Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

  George Herbert

  Feet, Deception, Physicians

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.143

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• A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Hype, Infidelity

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1024, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

  Sarah Palin

  Past, Thinking, Hype

  "Sarah Palin Talks Immigration, Economy and Political Future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2010.

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• Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

  Franz Kafka

  Hype, Sensual, Elements

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Deceit, Literature

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• Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Lying, Hype, Deceived Us

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• The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

  Hannah Arendt

  Liars, Lying, Wish

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Appearances are often deceiving.

  Aesop

  Hype, Literature, Appearance

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• Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

  Elias Canetti

  Children, Parenting, Practice

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• Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Motivational, Trust, Nature

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• A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

  Alan Turing

  Believe, Intelligent, Hype

  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Book by Alan Turing, 1950.

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• While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

  Sissela Bok

  Hype, Deception, Secrecy

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.7, Vintage

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• The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

  Rene Descartes

  Trust, Deceived Us, Hype

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