Quotes about Deception
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
- Aesop
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
- Milan Kundera
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.
- Thomas Merton
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
- Dorothy Sayers
Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.
- David Platt
It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.
- James Dobson
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
- Alan Turing
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events
- Albert Einstein
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
- Albert Einstein
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
- Aldous Huxley
I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.
- Aldous Huxley
The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince , a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time.
- Aldous Huxley