Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us..
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive..
Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and d….
Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that….
The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes..
For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement..
Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves..
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses..
A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant..
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refus….
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the Ame….
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men..
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived..
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing..
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth..
Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approv….
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured..
If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon..
Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes..
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood..
Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich..