862 Quotes About Deception

If it hadn’t been seen, it hadn’t happened.

To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society. Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative - to abandon trust as a defense against predation and deception - is worse.

The picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvellous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting.

An unquestioned assertion is as good as a truth.

Silent people can be misleading, suggesting profundity and thoughtfulness where there may be none.

The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.

A ‘cause’ that serves our purpose is, in reality, an ‘agenda’ that we’ve attempted to make noble by dressing it up in the finery of a cause. But as my Dad used to say, 'you can’t put perfume on a pig.

I know you are busy pulling the wool over my eyes but you may want to address the inconsistencies in your persona first.

The lies that people tell in stories is what makes them so true.