Deception Quotes - Page 17

• Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Successful, Men, Deceiving

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.73

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• Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Self, Flattery, Empty

  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “The Magic of Recluce”, p.378, Macmillan

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• Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Self, Hypocrisy

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• That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Doe, Deceiving, Harm

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• Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

  Samuel Johnson

  Tomorrow, Cheat, Stale

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (199?). “Wisdom of ages: quotations”

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• I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Opportunity, Self

  "In the Land of Memory" by Adam Dunn, edition.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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• The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

  Frank Herbert

  Illusion

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.236, Penguin

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• Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

  Karen Horney

  Self, May, Reasoning

  Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.135, Routledge

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• All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Expression, Body

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

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• Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

  Sissela Bok

  Liars, Lying, Desire

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.59, Vintage

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?

  Michael Josephson

  Trust, Betrayal, Integrity

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• All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

  Sun Tzu

  Strong, Arrogance, Warfare

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• When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in history.

  Sheryl Crow

  Fall, Acceptance, Media

  "On Deception, Spin, and Losing Our Way" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]

  Publilius Syrus

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• Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Venture, Gains

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• The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.

  Leon Trotsky

  Philosophy, Mistake, Class

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• All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

  Adolf Hitler

  Trust, Betrayal, Lying

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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• Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Play, Facts

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.333, Penguin

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• You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Son, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.92, Gibbs Smith

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• Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

  Virgil Thomson

  Musical Life, May, Stores

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• Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Love Is, Self

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• I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

  Lester Cole

  Samurai, Poet, Behinds

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• Frankness invites frankness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.215

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