Quotes About Deception

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

No one likes to find out that the story he always believed about his own identity is false.

If our systems should fail, we would faithfully report the fact. We have no ego-protection that would cause us to deceive you or ourselves. Whereasyou are engaged in ego-protection right now. You thought you would be necessary during the voyage, and you now discover that you were not. This makes you feel bad.

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they like what you will become someday.

When Achilles is most useful and loyal to you, that is when he has most certainly betrayed you"?

Illness or adultery, Alvin figured ignorance worked about as well in both cases. Not knowing just meant it was going to get worse.

I sold my brother," Valentine said, "and they paid me for it.

My father once told me that there are no gods; only the cruel manipulations of evil people who pretended that their power was good and their exploitation was love. But if there are no gods; why are we so hungry to believe in them? Just because evil liars stand between us and the gods and block our view of them does not mean that the bright halo that surrounds each liar is not the outer edges of a god, waiting for us to find our way around the lie.

We are the beasts that scheme, the predators that predict. We live by the lie, not by the truth; we study the truth only to shape more convincing lies that will bend other people to our will.

I had forgotten the first rule of diplomacy: Russians are never more cooperative than when they are about to betray you.

to be deceived. You know why I am here." "Ah. I guess this means Dap filed a report.

Todo es una ficción, de todas formas. Hacemos lo que hacemos y luego inventamos las razones, pero nunca son las razones verdaderas. La verdad está siempre fuera de nuestro alcance.

You mean I have to get the confession from the white boy? They train these boys to lie, you know. If you're white they don't let you grow up to adulthood if you haven't mastered the art of pretending to say one thing while actually intending to do another.

Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die.

It was Ender whose previous victories taught the enemy to think of us as one kind of creature, when we are really something quite different. He pretended all this time that humans were rational beings, when we are really the most terrible monsters these poor aliens could ever have conceived of in their nightmares.

A liar sees lies," said Taleswapper. "Even when they aren't there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can't stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.

They gave us the stardrive we used to get to them, and the weapon we used to kill them. They gave us everything.

Lack of truthfulness doesn't weaken a story if you can get enough people to believe the lie.

How could she have missed it? It was her knack, to see what people intended, what they were about to do. Yet she saw no further than his smile the first time they met, saw nothing but his genuine love and sympathy and concern for her. How could her knack have failed her?

but Ender knew that lies could not last long in America. So he believed.

but the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they tell us is true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind those words.