Deception Quotes - Page 20

• Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

  Bobby Bowden

  Jobs, Honesty, Integrity

  Bobby Bowden, Steve Bowden (2001). “The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom”, p.41, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Lying can never save us from another lie.

  Vaclav Havel

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

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• 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.

  Pierre Loti

  Appreciation, Cat, Suggestions

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• To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Religion, Benefits

  Mahatma Gandhi (1946). “Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani”

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• The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Use, Done

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• Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

  Livy

  Trust, Betrayal, Integrity

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• We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.

  Jesse Helms

  Country, Hate, School

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• When all else fails, tell the truth.

  Donald T. Regan

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

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• Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

  Zhuangzi

  Reality, Fool, Imagine

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Christian, Fall, Heart

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• When you begin to read or listen to the Holy Scriptures, pray to God thus: "Lord Jesus Christ, open the ears and eyes of my heart so that I may hear Thy words and understand them, and may fulfill Thy will." Always pray to God like this, that He might illumine your mind and open to you the power of His words. Many, having trusted in their own reason, have turned away into deception.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

  Francis Bacon

  Trust, Betrayal, Adversity

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.476

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• Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

  George Bancroft

  Honesty, Hype, Deceiving

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• It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.

  Richard Carrier

  Atheist, Errors, Self

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• 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

  Self, Ideas, Atheism

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• I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth.
  Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth.
  It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play.
  Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.

  Lauryn Hill

  Confused, Struggle, Games

  Song: EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING Album 'The Miseducation Of Lau, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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• Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution. He devises paradise fictions to provide succor and support... In acts of supreme self-deception, at various times and in various places he has been willing to profess belief in the most incredible myths because of what they have promised him.

  Paul Kurtz

  Religious, Self, Support

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• 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.

  Errol Morris

  Self, People, Failing

  Source: collider.com

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• Want to discover the truth about deception in therapy? Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson have collected a formable collection of old pros whose compelling prose sheds light on an important, but previously unexplored, subtext that permeates psychotherapy. Don't fool yourself: The roadmap to avoid being duped is contained within.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Light, Important, Want

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• Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Men, Talking

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

  Margery Allingham

  Deceit, Goats, Spots

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.85, Ipso Books

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• Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

  Sissela Bok

  Two, Deceit, Violence

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.54, Vintage

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• To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Artist, Essence, Practice

  Elspeth Huxley (2011). “The Mottled Lizard”, p.105, Random House

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• Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.

  Freda Adler

  Fashion, Long, Guests

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  Jonathan Eig

  Smart, Book, Style

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