Quotes About Deception

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

I hate when things are sugar-coated. I'd rather have the ugliest truth than the best lie.

Truth is a great flirt.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.