59 Deception Quotes for You to Enjoy

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. Xun Kuang

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. Peter Singer

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

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The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. Robin Marantz Henig

Exaggeration Words Denial Language Shade Collusion Count Self-Deception According Different Deception Meaning English English Language Each

Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy Ghost enable us to avoid deception - and to see, to feel, to know, to understand, and to remember things as they really are. David A. Bednar

Spiritual Obedience Remember Power Ghost Gifts Constant Ability See Feel Know Opens Understand Enable Door Deception Us Holy Really Holy Ghost Avoid Companionship Things

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. Sophocles

Money Sweet Profit Deception Even

All warfare is based on deception. Unknown

Deception Warfare Based

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours. Joyce Meyer

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't. Pamela Meyer

Truth Me You Trust People Believe Pleading Sign Tell Telling Telling The Truth Someone Insisting Trust Me Deception Much Who

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception. John Bevere

Heart Offended Deception Breeding Ground

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. Michael Musto

Truth Truth Is Exhausted Few Nothing Final Resort Telling Telling The Truth Threat Only Idea Alternative Been Years Up Very Options Deception Bribery Whole Last Last Few Years

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception. Rush Limbaugh

Dog Perception Everything Lies About Structured Wag Left Deception Manipulation

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. Claude Debussy

There's a degree of deception in silence. Don Lemon

Silence Degree Deception

Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us. Pamela Meyer

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