Quotes about Deception
Often the greatest poverty comes when we fail to realize what we have, just as the greatest deception comes when we do not know who we are.
— Lisa Bevere
We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.
— DL Moody
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
— Aesop
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
— Milan Kundera
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.
— Thomas Merton
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
— Dorothy Sayers
Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.
— David Platt
It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.
— James Dobson
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
— Alan Turing
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events
— Albert Einstein
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
— Albert Einstein
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
— Aldous Huxley