Quotes About Deception

What do you think vision is?" she asked him. "You don't see a fraction of the things that surround you, and at least half the things you do see are deceptive. Hell, color doesn't even exist outside your own head. Vision's just plain wrong; it only persists because it works. If you're going to dismiss the idea of God, you better stop believing your own eyes in the bargain.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing— irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don't experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies.

How do you know? Maybe you're just out of the loop, maybe those orthogonal stealthnets are running you the way you think you're running Rakshi. You think everyone on the planet's a puppet except for Colonel Jim Moore?

Everything's an act. Everything's strategy.

YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU MAD. —Aldous Huxley

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don't experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don't experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default. Rorschach does nothing to you that you don't already do to yourselves.

Comforting lies get far too easy with practice.

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

Truth had never been a priority. If believing a lie kept the genes proliferating, the system would believe that lie with all its heart.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don't experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Throughout the length and breadth of the world, the smart ones sharpen their minds in the schools and universities. In Greece, they sharpen them on the suckers. The more suckers there are around, the more smart ones there are.

Öyle bir ya?tayd?m ve öyle bir mizaçtayd?m ve çocuklu?umda o kadar az oyun oynam??t?m ve aldatmas?n? o kadar az ö?renmi?tim ki, yalan bana suçlar?n en a??r? gibi geliyordu; ve bir yalan söylendi?i zaman insanlar?n de?il, e?yan?n bile buna nas?l tahammül etti?ine ?a??yordum.

Izd?rab?n verdi?i intibah zamanlar?nda, kendi kendini aldatmak, ba?kalar?n? kand?rmak kadar basit de?ildir ve insan kendi içindeki adaletten ürkmeye ba?lar.

Ah ben ruhumun içindeki o ikinci ruhu bilirim, esrar? gören gözleriyle ve esrar? duyan kulaklar?yla her ?eyi sezer ve bana sezdirir ve beni aldatamaz, ah, içim beni aldatmaz.

Kendinizi hasta farzetmeyiniz. Hastal?k, çok defa bu zand?r.

Benim mücerret nazariyelerime kar?? muar?zlar?m?n müptezel te?bihler ve mü?ahhas delillerle müdafaa ettikleri tez, bu cahil efkar-? umumiyeyi aldatabilirdi.

Tuhaf" dedi, benim bu k?z? gözlerim ?s?r?yor. Ben dedim ki, e?er güzellerin vücutlar?nda göz ?s?r?klar? iz b?raksayd?, bütün yüzleri, boyunlar?, bacaklar?, ayaklar? çürük içinde kal?rd?.

Things are not always what they seem.

Come of it what may, as Sinon said.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.