Quotes About Deception

So what's the point of showing me something I can't see?' 'So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

Olaylar?n her zaman göründüÄŸü gibi olmad??? önemli ve yayg?n bir gerçektir.

pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.

Be', c'è questo Dio, il vostro Dio, che piazza un melo in mezzo al giardino e dice: Ragazzi, fate quello che volete, ma non mangiate le mele. Caso straordinario, loro addentano una mela, ed ecco che lui ti salta fuori da dietro un cespuglio gridando: Vi ho beccati, vi ho beccati!. Non avrebbe fatto molta differenza se non avessero mangiato la mela. [...] quando hai a che fare con quel tipo di dei, in trappola ci cadi sempre.

Mant?k belki iyi bir ÅŸeydi, ama evrim sürecinin de keÅŸfettiÄŸi gibi birtak?m sak?ncalar?n?n olduÄŸu da bir gerçekti. Mant?kl? düÅŸünebilen herhangi bir ÅŸeyin en az kendisi kadar mant?kl? düÅŸünebilen bir baÅŸka ÅŸey taraf?ndan kolayca aldat?labilmesi mümkündü.

McDonald's, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger. He passed out.

McDonald's, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger. He passed out.

It's all devastatingly true — except the bits that are lies

I am a vile polluted lump of earth; So I've continued since my birth; Although Jehovah grace does daily give me, As sure this monster Satan will deceive me. Come, therefore, Lord, from Satan's claws relieve me.   Wash me in Thy blood, O Christ, And grace divine impart. Then search and try the corners of my heart, That I in all things may be fit to do Service to Thee, and sing Thy praises too.14

Because of his aristocratic upbringing and friendly countenance, no one yet realized he was a master at reading people.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

What I notice is that everybody's kind of accusing everybody else of actingthese days. Know what I mean? Kind of, uh, not being genuine. Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.

Exposing hypocrisy doesn't make you a moral person

When you crop a photo, you tell a lie.

the bland politician's smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead.

Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now—as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.

the only person worse than a liar is a hypocrite.

The fact is, you lied about hearing something because you didn't want the management to know you were drunk on duty. Isn't that right?

Jennie quickly began to use language to mislead us. Or to manage a situation more to her liking.

Our leaders are morally bankrupt, shameless hypocrites, feigning piety but devoid of real spirituality.

Alterman had hired a professional ASL interpreter from the Somerville School for the Deaf. Her credentials were impeccable. She was terrific and we had very carefully coached Jennie and rehearsed her testimony. For days on end we rehearsed what Jennie was to say. If she were human I am sure it would have been illegal, coaching the witness the way we did.

Hezekiah Pendergast," Constance continued, "was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius—and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over time, devised his own 'medicine': Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative.

when you really parsed what the man had said, he in fact had said nothing.