Quotes about Deception
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.
- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
- Carl Jung
So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.
- John Eldredge
I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
- Will Rogers
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
- Publilius Syrus
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
- George Eliot
There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.
- GK Chesterton
it's clear from Scripture that a time is coming when the whole earth will fall under a grand delusion. The means through which this global deception will take place is the Antichrist, the Man of Sin. He himself
- Terry James
Feel-good answers are not enough. Twice, the book of Proverbs tells us, "There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death."
- Terry James
This is part of Satan's current "Big Lie." His delusion.
- Terry James
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
- Tertullian
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
- Thomas a Kempis