Deceit Quotes
218 quotes
"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
"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."
"My reality is it’s nighttime. The truth is I’m just blindfolded. How many people live like me, in self-deluded darkness?"
"Never judge someone by their relatives."
"Reading makes you ready for the world. A man who doesn’t read is a man who is easily deceived. You must find that man and make him sign a contract, and you must do it before Satan does. Trust me, the profits are HUGE!"
"Why does death have to stop #love? It doesn’t stop people from voting in Chicago."
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
"Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one!"
"Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse."
"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self."
"Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees"
"There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter..."
"Kashays [anger-pride-deceit-greed] will not leave by suppressing them, they go away through Gnan (Enlightened Knowledge)."
"Soul (Atma) remains very far from where kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are created, the Soul is quite far from there. Where there is absence of kashays, there lies the ‘religion of Vitrags (the enlightened ones)’, and where kashays are present, lies the ‘relative religion’!"
"There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization)."
"Religion (dharma) is decrease in kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) and increase of kashay is irreligion (adharma). When Kashay goes away (completely) is the religion of the Self (Soul)."
"When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves."
"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."
"Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it."
"Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind."
"Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever."
"Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness."
"My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it."
"Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself."
"A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18"
"In the essence of truth lies deceit."
"When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!"
"People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them."
"One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things – is that not a sage indeed?"
"If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place."
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast."
"She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved."
"Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky." Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride"
"Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered."
"...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life."
"Silence is a lie that screams at the light."
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"Dear lover, pull my ears and not my legs for it is better to be cautioned than to be lied to."
"The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them. The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your very eyes."
"The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them."
"Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this."
"Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured."
Christine de Pizan, Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
"Michelle, since the first day I met you I knew you were the one for me. I knew that I would make you my wife. I love waking up to your beautiful face every morning and seeing you before I close my eyes each night. I love you with everything in me, and I promise to be the man that you need for the rest of our lifetime together. Would you do me the honor of being my wife?"
"The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible."
"How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?"
"We evolved haphazardly within a random universe; no purpose underpins us, no God watches over us, and no assured glorious future awaits us. We are saddled with a dualistic consciousness that weighs us down and plays tricks on us. We have built and seem unable to dismantle a dehumanizing and destructive civilization and mindset that perpetuates deceit and greed. We can make ourselves as comfortable as possible, as doctors tell their terminally ill patients, but we are sadly incurable."
"If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business."
"I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life."
"Christians are called to set people free from the delusion of the world and from the devil’s deceit"
"Any government that places profit before people is pure evil."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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