Deception Quotes - Page 22

• To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

  Zicheng Hong

  Attitude, People, Taoism

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• We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception.

  Kris Carr

  Ignorance, Animal, Confusion

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• If a man really sets his heart upon the will of God, God will enlighten a little child to tell that man what is His will. But if a man does not truly desire the will of God, even if he goes in search of a prophet, God will put into the heart of the prophet a reply like the deception in his own heart.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Children, Heart

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• For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the deception, to the duplicity. It is the structure of an affair - not the sexual or emotional behavior or what people actually are doing.

  Esther Perel

  Lying, Emotional, People

  Source: wbur.org

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• I think that internet technologies are making everything so transparent. The arms race of deception and spin against the public trying to keep up with it - I think the forces of spin have to lose. In the corporate world people are finding this. Corporate social responsibility has been on the agenda for a very long time - and a lot of people say it's a kind of green-wash or white-wash - but because there's nowhere to hide anymore, people are coming around to the realization that the only way to be seen to be good is to be good. You can't fake it.

  Julian Baggini

  Responsibility, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

  Lillian Hellman

  Simple, Ignorant, Theme

  Lillian Hellman (1976). “Scoundrel time”

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• Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

  Maria Montessori

  Soul, Deceit, Might

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• To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Evil, Suffering

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• I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

  Jason Mraz

  Acceptance, Mirrors, Who I Am

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• I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Thinking, Appreciate

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.1049, Delphi Classics

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• No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

  Bertrand Russell

  Self, Satisfaction, Self Deception

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.72, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

  Ann Druyan

  Deny, Gratification

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• No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Self, Persist

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• Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Anxiety, Soul

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• Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Responsibility, Views

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• The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

  Colin Wilson

  Believe, Passion, Self

  Colin Wilson (2011). “Afterlife: An Investigation”, p.307, Doubleday

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• If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

  Francis Bacon

  Done, Want, Facts

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• Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

  Bill Johnson

  Welcome, Compromise

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• The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Self, People

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• The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

  Francis Bacon

  Fall, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sleep, Self, Mind

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. One can detect here, elevated to an incomparably higher level, the same pathetic emotional appeal that lies concealed in every fake spiritualist photograph, every pornographic photograph; one comes to suspect that the strange, disturbing emotional appeal of the photographic art consists solely in that same repeated refrain: this is a true ghost... this is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies, no deceptions.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Lying, Emotional

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• You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception.

  Michael Hudson

  Economic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Awakening, Tales

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• This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. I didn't need to do this [run for presidency], folks, believe me — believe me. I built a great company and I had a wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the fruits and benefits of years of successful business deals and businesses for myself and my family. Instead of going through this absolute horror show of lies, deceptions, malicious attacks — who would have thought? I'm doing it because this country has given me so much, and I feel so strongly that it's my turn to give back to the country that I love.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Country, Lying

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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