Quotes by Deception Patience protects you from deception A. R. Bernard protect protect-you deception Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. Aaron Hill deception vices joy Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask? Abraham Joshua Heschel vanity deception people The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases. Adrian Rogers boss deception darkness Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud. Aiden Wilson Tozer deception form self A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. Albert Einstein deception liberty poison A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience. Alexander Cockburn deception self war A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. Alexander Pushkin host deception lows An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods. Ambrose Bierce election deception auctions One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. Anais Nin deception hypocrisy truth It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. Anatole France talent deception deceiving Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky. Andrew Bird cliche honest deception My pencil is like a fencer's foil. Andrew Wyeth foils pencils deception The only gratification that science denies to us is deception. Ann Druyan gratification deny deception We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. Antoine Lavoisier deception nature science Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything. Antonio Porchia deception time There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Arthur Conan Doyle hype deception inspirational We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception. Arthur Conan Doyle consistency deception looks If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity. Arthur Helps jealous deception may What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. irreverence deception needs 1234567891011»