Quotes About Deception

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

These hoes ain't loyal

Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.

Don't let 'em see they killed you!

Pittacus Lore, Eight's Origin

Eternity is a lie and Chiron was the messenger.

If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.