862 Quotes About Deception

Do not deceive yourself.

Can these foods [low-fat, vitamin-enriched, etc] even be called "healthy"? Perhaps we should think about it this way: If you cut a batch of pharmaceutical-grade cocaine with chai, you could say with some degree of honesty that it is "healthier," "less addictive," and "now with chai!" But would you say it's "good for you"?

Again she dances on the edge of my consciousness, laughing at me in my dreams. This is only fair. I cast myself as her fool from the beginning. When I told her she could have anything of mine; she plundered my heart, dazzled my mind, taking whatever it was of mine that she pleased.

WE ALL HEAR BLOODY LIES, WE ALL SEE DECEPTION WITH OUR OWN EYES,WE ARE NEITHER DUMB NOR BLIND... WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE POWER TO SPEAK OUR MINDS.

Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self.

Any advice which does not lead to self-improvement is misleading.

The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it’s translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.

You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.

The media’s so central to our lives that we believe what we see onscreen is real. In fact, it’s more real than reality: emotions are heightened, drama sharpened, issues simplified.