Quotes on deception

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there”

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”

“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken. ”

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”

“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”

“For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. (Another empty room)”

“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”

“I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.”

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”

“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.”

“Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.”

“LET'S FACE IT...WE ALL HEAR BLOODY LIES, WE ALL SEE DECEPTION WITH OUR OWN EYES,WE ARE NEITHER DUMB NOR BLIND... WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE COURAGE TO SPEAK OUR MINDS.”

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

“People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.”

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Sometimes, secrets are the most beautiful lies we tell ourselves.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

There’s no future in lying to yourself.

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

The hardest lies to untangle are the ones you tell yourself.

When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

The darkest minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.

I am not a man to be easily taken in, but the world does take me in, and I, who have such a high opinion of my own cleverness, am deceived.

The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

In a world filled with deception, sometimes trust is the biggest risk of all.

Sometimes the truth is worse than the lie.

People trust their eyes above all else – but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there.

You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth.

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

Sometimes, a good lie is the only thing that saves you.

Nothing is what it seems.