Quotes of: Deception Keyword

Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.

The Philosophy of Deception

The power of His gentleness..In the Eye of Deception - This is my story.

In The Eye Of Deception: A True Story

Oliver Queenan: We deal in deception here. What we do not deal with is self-deception.

The Departed

What is awakening? Awakening is the cessation of self-deception! Religion is self-deception; fate is self-deception; the idea that there is no death but only continuation is a self-deception! Real awakening is to acquire a scientific mind, it is to m...

Mehmet Murat ildan

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

George Orwell

Self-deception fools all of the people all of the time.

Marty Rubin

No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.

In The Eye Of Deception: A True Story

Mistakes are excuses of doing something and being apologetically right for doing it. Excuses are deceptions of not doing something and finding reasons for not doing it. Deceptions are blindfolds that lead you to what you can sense and smell but canno...

Goitsemang Sandra Mvula

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Robert Motherwell

Sometimes her capacity for self-deception disturbed her.

Mary Balogh

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

Sam Harris

Sometimes it is worth taking a risk, no matter what the consequences.

The Gemini Effect: Deception: Book Three

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

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Paul Samuelson

Going insane would be worse than dying. At least death is clear and final

The Deception Dance

Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.

Michel Templet

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

David Novak

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

As Bill Sees It: The A. A. Way of Life ...Selected Writings of the A. A.'s Co-Founder

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Claude Debussy

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Adam Bede

A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.

Christopher Buehlman