862 Quotes About Deception

You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

Natural selection,” in the Darwinian sense, could not explain the miraculous coincidence of imitative aspect and imitative behavior, nor could one appeal to the theory of “the struggle for life” when a protective device was carried to a point of mimetic subtlety, exuberance, and luxury far in excess of a predator’s power of appreciation. I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.

When someone tells you that there is no agenda, you can be certain there is nothing but an agenda.

Our understanding of what is really 'newsworthy' is a misunderstanding.

At the end of all the filtering, we take the distorted perception of reality and add it to our worldviews. Since the worldview created most of the filter in the first place, most of what goes back into the worldview is confirmation bias.

If two opposing politicians both claim their opponent is lying, remember that two things can be true simultaneously.

Truth is only available through Jesus Christ. Even though assumptions don’t come out of whole cloth, they still consist of made-up stuff.

There is something worse than obvious immorality and that is false morality.

Indoctrination is the dubious art of leading an individual to become convinced that some conviction arose from deep within the core of their being, when in fact it was subtly implanted from some place far outside of the core of anything except the greed of the one who planted it.