Deception Quotations | Page 2

There's a degree of deception in silence.

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.

Self-deception helps us deceive.

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.

Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

This report exposes one of the biggest con jobs in recent history. This long-running, secretive campaign funded by some of the country's wealthiest families has relied on deception to bamboozle the public not only about who must pay the estate tax, but about how repealing it will affect the country.

There has probably been more resume deception in the last 10 years than I would dare imagine. But I don't think it's going to change.

There has probably been more rŽsumŽ deception in the last 10 years than I would dare imagine. But I don't think it's going to change.

We're talking about a nuclear program characterized by deception and prevarication.

You are the embodiment of truth itself because you are devoid of deception and treachery.

We've got a guy named Alstott that's been known to do some damage (in short yardage). We have some deception there too now with a couple of tight ends that can not only block but get down the field and do some things.

We can now see a pattern of coordination and deceit.

You may have misappropriation of government dollars or theft by deception or something of that nature. But the way the contracts were, the way the monies were provided to the day cares, it didn't place limitations on the dollars per se. Therefore, we can't charge a crime.

We have detected areas of the brain activated by deception and truth telling by using a method that is verifiable against the current gold standard method of lie detection -- the conventional polygraph.

The results of the probe are disturbing, but they are not surprising. People believe what they see or what they think they see. Deception and disguise often work.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

It was what Mr Lay was saying, what the company was saying. I was trying to keep up the deception as well.

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Sager is kind of deceptive. He's got good feet, picks his holes well and is a good hitter. Morse is a kid who hits you hard.

Sam reminds me of Glen Johnson. His record is deceptive but this is his opportunity.

Schwarzenegger now hopes to bring the common Bush-Schwarzenegger agenda to this bluest of blue states. I am hopeful that the people of California will see through the governor's deception and dishonesty.

Rather than seeking personal injury damages for the consequences of obesity, there will be lawsuits based on state consumer protection laws. There's a lot of deception in the marketplace and a lot of it is relevant to the obesity epidemic. But here we don't have to prove anyone got fat.

People who indulge in the acts of deception and debauchery are devoid of success.

People don't see the ball, they don't have good swings on him. I can't really tell you exactly why, but there's some deception to him. Some of it might be his height, some of it might be the downhill plane all the time, but there's deception to him and I really like it.

So when they cast down, Musa said to them: What you have brought is deception; surely Allah will make it naught; surely Allah does not make the work of mischief-makers to thrive.

Deception of voters has become an accepted tactic.

Deception is huge in this game. As a hitter, the first thing you want to do is pick up the ball. If you can't pick up the ball, that means the ball is getting on you quicker. It doesn't matter about velocity at that point.

Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

Any move trying to cover up the cause of the accident and any passive attitude toward the probe are deemed deception and a defiance of law.

a planner, a schemer, and one capable of deception and dangerous results on his own.

The Bush Administration's inflation of enrollment numbers disguises the problems that plague this privately-administered benefit. Deception will do nothing to help older and disabled get the medications they so desperately need.

The Bush administration has its sights set firmly on Tehran. The same deception is taking place right before our eyes and most Americans remain blind. It is going to happen. It is happening as we speak.

Young Scott Baker out there facing a lineup that can just eat you alive. But he had enough deception. He can add and subtract very well.

This is the beginning of the end for this conspiracy of lies and deception that has been perpetrated on the American people by the tobacco companies. Someone is finally telling the truth.

This case presents a deeply troubling picture of greed and deception at a large, publicly held company,

This is a case of deceit and sheer fraud.

This political senility and this deception by the Syrian security apparatus is a laughable farce and at the same time it seems they will use all means, even security, to shake up security

It's just another blatant deception that ITT is pulling on its shareholders, ... There is definitely some concern in the marketplace over the ability of this transaction to close.

It was a very well planned and arranged operation. The deception ? the number of people and the money ? is massive.

It's a deceptive final score. It was obviously a very difficult game. It's not easy against a team like Golden State because they are so explosive.

It really comes down to greed and deception and finger-pointing,

For many years, I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: / All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

It's the deception and when you think you are dealing with someone you think you can trust.

It may affect our transition game. He's got really good poise with the puck, he's got good deception where he can look people off and then make the appropriate little outlet pass. Those are real critical to our transition game and how much time we spend in our own end.

It shows that while he can be charming, there's deception there.

It's pretty clear that if they had been two black men it would have been a different reaction. It would have been an evil, nefarious story about deception and disease. These are guys who blatantly cheat on their wives with other men. There's no way it would have been called a love story if they were black.

it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

They are trained to look for stress, fear or some sort of deception. They identify certain characteristics and pass the information on to local law enforcement.

There was a period of sort of minor deception. Then the book seemed to be being advertised initially as the official history, and I did object to him saying that.

Not too many 6-5 guys are that fast. Their speed is deceptive. I've watched one player, (it seemed) he gained two steps every 5 yards.

serve as a reminder that there will be always those who seek through aggression, deception and force to oppose their will on the world of civility, decency and law.

The faculty of self-deception, essential requisite for anyone wanting to guide others

I'm not denying anything. I wasn't trying to deceive anyone. But it was wrong. I overstepped the rule. It has happened before. But it won't happen in the future. I should have known better.

I'm outraged not only by his own deception, but his efforts to enlist players and assistant coaches in this scheme,

In the past few weeks we have begun to unravel the web of deceit around pirate fishing. The way the legal and illegal ships work together is designed to deceive, but in the end it is a simple case of stealing food from others.

I just know him too well. I know what he's like behind closed doors. I've been in lots and lots of meetings with him. The only way he can justify what he did was to create all this deception that I was some kind of ... monster. That I was hard to work with or whatever ... and they were all lies.

Clearly there is a pattern of deceit, ... He (Brewer) crafted his story to try to imply James Byrd was dead before they started dragging him.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

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.

Art lies because it's social.

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who excuse themselves with the expression, "That is politics; nor can you be responsible for deception in others. But you are responsible for yourself! There are no collective panaceas - only individual ones."

The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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.

The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.

I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

What like a bullet can undeceive!

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...

Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.