Quotes about Deception

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

The efficacy of prayer consists in a cognitive-spiritual catharsis, which purifies man of the most hideous untruth and deception, namely, the pretension that he belongs to himself and that he is his own lord.

What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

If I were your enemy, I'd disguise myself and manipulate your perspectives so that you'd focus on the wrong culprit—your husband, your friend, your hurt, your finances, anything or anyone except me. Because when you zero in on the most convenient, obvious places to strike back against your problems, you get the impression you're fighting for something. Even though all you're really doing is just . . . fighting. For nothing.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

When a foreign adversary knows that an American official has deceived or withheld vital information from our government, it creates a fundamental counterintelligence vulnerability that can render that official irreparably compromised.