Quotes About Deception

It looked like a bird - in the same way that a wolf looked like a lapdog.

Never trust a man who tells you good news, Reen had always said. It's the oldest, but easiest, way to con someone.

People suffered when the truth became a commodity to be speculated upon.

I'm not a hallucination," J.C. snapped. "I have state-of-the-art stealthing equipment.

I'm sorry, Mistress," OreSeur whispered. "How long?" Vin asked, bowing her head. "Since you gave my predecessor—the real OreSeur—the dog's body," the kandra said. "I killed him that day and took his place, wearing the body of a dog. You never saw him as a wolfhound.

it was beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.

That's the credit she had given to religion: lies that made people feel better.

The tree slowly fell over, playing dead.

Respect the people you lie to, Tao had taught her. Steal from them long enough, and you will begin to understand them.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not Always spoken the truth in my books? And now You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me!

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.

It's helpful to keep in mind Alberto Brandolini's Bullshit Asymmetry Principle or what's sometimes known as Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth.

Confabulation has a really great and subtle definition: a Confabulation is a lie told honestly. To confabulate is to replace missing information with something false that we believe to be true.

Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. The five-year-old tyrants within us are the ones who can tell it like it is.

bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. Harry G. Frankfurt, Professor Emeritus, Yale University (From his book, On Bullshit)

The stories were confabulations—lies, honestly told.

participants who thought they were not susceptible or vulnerable to deceptive advertising were, in fact, the most vulnerable. The researchers' explanation for this phenomenon says it all: "Far from being an effective shield, the illusion of invulnerability undermines the very response that would have supplied genuine protection.

Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

It's helpful to think of lying as a defiance of the truth and bullshitting as a wholesale dismissal of the truth.

Besides, there was always the chance that Sir Frederick was being less than honest; his reputation, after all, was far from savoury.

Fake hope would only serve up more disappointment later.