862 Quotes About Deception

If I spend all my time looking in the rearview of my life, I can be going in reverse while simultaneously experiencing the rather convincing illusion that I’m going forward.

Oh my hopeful states,my quick deceptions,all beliefs,my humor,always looking for a mistake in myself,minding worthlessly,my tears which are flowing, without a reason,giving consequence to everyone.Farewell to all of you...From now on,I won't be nobody's nobody.

Public deceptions are another reason to judge people on the merits of the evidence and not their group identity. The word justice does not require a qualifier.

All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.

Always, as I looked back, I could see that there had been an almost willful intent to obscure, to misdirect, disguised as concern that we not be frightened or overwhelmed.

Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It's calculating and cold.

The weak will try to convince you that weakness is strength.

Magic doesn't sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your explanations fall away: the ordinary, in all its plain and simple outrageousness, begins to shine -- to become luminously, impossibly so. Every facet of the world is awake, and you within it.

There was nothing of which to be afraid. The only thing to fear was the evil men did because they believed the dark cloak of night, like Ted did, covered their offenses.