Quotes about Deception

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

And be very careful what friends you make. You never know what sort of creatures are in them colleges. Outwardly they may be as whited sepulchers and inwardly as ravening wolves, that's what.

what perverted shapes thwarted love can take.

one sin demands another to cover it.

Sin has corrupted not only what we do, but also how we think, what goals we set, and how we feel about ourselves and others. Merely changing what we do will not change who we are. The cure for the selfishness and fear that control so much of what we do cannot be reduced to shallow solutions; we need to learn how our minds deceive us.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

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?

What seems to be a stone is a drama.