Deception Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.

  William J. Clinton

  Cancer, Air, Years

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.1762, Best Books on

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• You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.

  Francis Frangipane

  Attitude, Men, Speaks Out

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• But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Sight, Understanding

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Even good people are obliged to deceive.

  Greg LeMond

  People, Deceiving, Obliged

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

  Bobby Bowden

  Jobs, Honesty, Integrity

  Bobby Bowden, Steve Bowden (2001). “The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom”, p.41, Taylor Trade Publications

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• But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.

  Hippocrates

  Fashion, Mean, Science

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• Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Self, Meditation Practice

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• All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Bait

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• Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.

  James E. Faust

  Philosophy, Addiction, Drug

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• Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.

  Albertus Magnus

  Nature, Clever, Women

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• This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

  Azim Daudpota

  Military, People, Imagination

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• Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

  Vincent Voiture

  Giving, Dear God, Fortune

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• 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, Real, Lying

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• Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.

  Jacques Vallee

  Games, Play, Roles

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• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Dark, Night

  Sonnet 147

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