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

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

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

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

Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

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

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

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

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple

If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

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