383 Quotes About Deceit

We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our lives.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.


I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

One who lives for Self only, there is possibility of boarder-line deceit, overt extremism or covert terrorism …. So, the idea to abolish these is to live for anything other than Self.

What I’m talking about is the order of chosen men who inherit power. From Pharaohs and kings to bankers and executives. Their path is paved for them, and life is but a child’s lavish play pen. It used to be that the peasants would toil in meaningless servitude, unable to see the big picture, without a chance to break the cycle. Now we have computers to help us do our research. Suddenly, the rhythms and patterns of oppression and deceit since time immemorial come into startling focus.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

The absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed has been referred to as Charitra (Conduct of the Self).

Women have an encircling wall of deceit around them; therefore, they are not aware of deception, it is their natural attribute. Men have the entanglement of egoism; egoism does not let them see that entanglement. After attaining the Knowledge of the Self, men have to keep ‘seeing’ the egoism and the women have to keep seeing the deceit.

Where anger-pride-deceit-greed is absent, the worldly interactions are pure. Or else, if there is attentive awareness [upayog] over them, till then it is acceptable.