Deception Quotes - Page 7

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

  Sissela Bok

  Hype, Deceiving, Secrecy

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

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• Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Truth, Midst, Truth Of Life

  Friedrich Schiller, Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson, Leonard Ashley Willoughby (1967). “Schiller: Aesthetic education”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to disarm them and even, in some cases, to employ and enjoy them. This self-knowledge opens up a whole new world before us, rich in beauty and subtlety, and frees us not only to take the best out of it, but also to give it back the best of ourselves, and, in so doing, to fulfil our potential as human beings. I don't really think it's a choice.

  Neel Burton

  Thinking, Self, Reflecting Upon

  FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Mar 05, 2013

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• Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

  Sun Tzu

  Life, Strength, Wisdom

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• I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't get you

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Girl

  Song: Shot for Me, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Education, Wisdom, Cheating

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2013

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• Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Mean, Enemy, May

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• Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

  Terry Brooks

  Games, Play

  Terry Brooks (2009). “The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 1: Magic Kingdom For Sale SOLD! - The Black Unicorn - Wizard at Large”, p.349, Del Rey

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• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

  Philip Neri

  Love, God, Christian

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• We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in the way of brains. They are very ordinary professional men, and all they know is their own trade, just like all other professional men. There are some geniuses among them, just as there are mental giants in any other field of endeavor.

  Anthony Standen

  Taken, Eye, Science

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• A stand in is a politician who can deliver her constituency to her Wall Street backers. That's what a politician does in America. You get a constituency; you make them believe your promises, and then you turn them over to your financial campaign backers. That's what politics has become and that's as much an art of deception as economics is.

  Michael Hudson

  Art, Wall, Believe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Truth, Racism, People

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

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• The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

  Hannah More

  Self, Self Deception, Ingenuity

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• Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Suffering, Being Free

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House

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• It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Eye, Independence, World

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 14 (1919)

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• The press can't write the kind of things they write, which are lies.The stories are fabrications and false. And the only thing I say is hopefully, hopefully, our patriotic movement will overcome this terrible deception.

  Donald Trump

  Lying, Writing, Patriotic

  Source: time.com

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• For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The war provided a test site for experimentation, and paved the way for emergence of what I call in Strategie de la deception 'the second deterrence'.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, War, Development

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

  Bill Johnson

  Thinking, Intellect, Deceived

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• One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Needs, Culture, Cover Ups

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• I repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications technologies.

  Paul Virilio

  Book, Communication, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Funny, Trust, Betrayal

  "Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong". Book by Arthur Bloch, p. 47, 1980.

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• It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

  Giordano Bruno

  Change, Truth, Freedom

  "Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 - 1600". Book by Coulson Turnbull, 1913.

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• Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

  Beth Moore

  Sometimes, Truth Is

  Beth Moore (2009). “Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds”, p.77, B&H Publishing Group

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• Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixites. Those who didn't find out in the sixites will find out in the near future because we're going to have a rerun.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Giving Up, Government, Reruns

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