Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. — Oscar Wilde
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. — George Crabbe
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. — Saul Bellow
When we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are. — Jay Shetty
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
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. — Plato
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction. — Criss Jami
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. — Charles Caleb Colton
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. — Booth Tarkington
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. — Friedrich Nietzsche
They are most cheated who cheat themselves. — Danish Proverbs
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability. — Kevin Mitnick
Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. — Annie Jacobsen
To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies. — Cardinal Richelieu
Deceiving Others Image Quotes
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
Deceiving Yourself Quotes
Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing — Jessie J
Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master. — Dalai Lama
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself. — Bodhidharma
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you. — David Bronstein
Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions. — John D. Rockefeller
Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself. — Zig Ziglar
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself? — Jodi Picoult
Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer. — C. S. Lewis
Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I do not believe there is such a thing as a God. — George Holyoake
Being Deceived Quotes
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you. — Clare of Assisi
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. — Alan Turing
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists. — Joan Robinson
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism. — Roger Sherman
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another. — Osamu Dazai
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet. — Ronaldo
Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived. — James Randi
. . . you should know that there is present with you the angel whom God has appointed for each man. . . This angel, who is sleepless and cannot be deceived, is always present with you; he sees all things and is not hindered by darkness. You should know, too, that with him is God. — Anthony the Great
Deceiving Ourselves Quotes
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
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.
If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling. — Paul Washer
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. — Plato
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive. — Saint Augustine
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? — Euripides
Deception Quotes
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. — Marcus Aurelius
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.
The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception. — John Hagee
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics. — Vladimir Lenin
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt. — Chris Hedges
Don’t let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous. — Erin Pizzey
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. — Karen Horney
They catch up with a liar sooner than with a limping dog. — Hungarian Proverbs
Deceit Quotes
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. — George Orwell
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye. — Carlos Castaneda
Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian — Guru Nanak
I’m a human being, I’m not anyone’s mascot! And I am America’s conscience. And that’s what they don’t want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government. — Russell Means
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. — Henry A. Wallace
People who feel the need to control others, don't have control over themselves.
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. — Henry A. Wallace
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. — John Scott
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present. — Octavio Paz
I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy. — Gen Urobuchi
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. — Noel Coward
The last people who are consulted, the last people who benefit from anything in Washington are Americans! Billions of dollars are sent to this black hole we call Ukraine. Sending money to Ukraine is an exercise of fraud, deceit and criminality. — Douglas Macgregor
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. — Italo Calvino
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? — Bible
Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems. — John Rosemond
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead. — Aphra Behn
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments. — Michael Parenti
Never lie unless you have to, and if you don’t have a dang good lie, stick to the truth. — American Proverbs
Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all. — Mark Twain
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. — Marco Tempest
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium... Photograph and be photographed. — Alexander Rodchenko
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. — Shannon Alder
An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements. — Ezra Taft Benson
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. — S. E. Hinton
Those Who Deceive Quotes
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry. — Al-Shafi‘i
Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. — Sun Myung Moon
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. — Rene Descartes
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. — Saint Francis de Sales
We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the Devil. — Francis of Assisi
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good. — Isocrates
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence. — Samuel Johnson
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once. — Rene Descartes
The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons. — Robert Greene
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy. — Blaise Pascal
I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players. — Ronaldinho
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger. — Orson Scott Card
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself. — Ninon De L'Enclos
Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request. — Dalai Lama
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance. — Oscar Wilde
An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality. — John Galt
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. — Horace
Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you. — Dejan Stojanovic
I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright. — Rene Descartes
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. — Mark Twain
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. — Theodor Herzl
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. — Oscar Wilde
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. — John Drinkwater
We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved. — Dalai Lama
[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate. — Elisabeth Elliot
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another. — C. S. Lewis
It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her. — Kate Chopin
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses. — Confucius
It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive. — Jean De La Bruyere
Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. — Sayings
I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more. — Camille Claudel
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play. — Bridget Riley
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter. — Socrates
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves. — LeBron James
It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow. — Thomas S. Monson
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves. — Philip Sidney
We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. — Sidney Jourard
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we’re all too eager to deceive ourselves and others, to discern a sacred image in a grilled cheese sandwich or find a divine warning in a comet — Neil deGrasse Tyson
And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know. — Clare Short
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. — Samuel Johnson
Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle. — Umberto Eco
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. — Dennis Prager
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. — John Locke
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