Top 29 Quotes About Truth And Deceit
#2. ..fresh friends from completely different worlds faced with the hard shapings of truth and deceit, of right and wrong, and of the equivalent damage when high expectations and low expectations are devastatingly unmet.
Christopher Scotton
#3. Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.
Idries Shah
#4. Artless yourself, you suspect not others of deceit; and viewing the world through the medium of your own truth and innocence, you fancy all who surround you to deserve your confidence and esteem. What
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#5. Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again.
Criss Jami
#6. Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth.
Baltasar Gracian
#7. There is strong danger in a person who can create such powerful deceit they can no longer distinguish their own lies from the truth.
Julie Eshbaugh
#8. Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#9. If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#10. Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.
Baltasar Gracian
#11. 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.
Suzanne Finnamore
#12. The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part
Paul Hirsch
#13. We have come to an age where it is very hard to know which is truth and which is deceit
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#14. Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".
Alireza Salehi Nejad
#15. When we respond to attacks of doubt, distortion, and deceit with the truth of God's Word, the fiery dart is extinguished and the enemy takes another hit.
Beth Moore
#16. Be comforted! If there are people who can't stand to be around you, just remember that darkness hates light and deceit hates truth.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#17. A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18
Rudyard Kipling
#18. Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check
agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.
Luther Burbank
#19. He looked at her, stripped naked for the instant of verbiage and deceit.
William Faulkner
#20. The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.
Noam Chomsky
#21. This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.
Dave Eggers
#22. True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#23. Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#24. O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")
W.B.Yeats
#25. It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.
Samuel Johnson
#26. It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for the truth, on the ability for the Senate to decide whether or not video presentations of these witnesses will be permitted on the floor of the Senate.
Slade Gorton
#27. It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.
Jocelyn Murray
#28. Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#29. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius
