Quotes About Deception

What if everything you have been taught is all a lie and everything you feel is all a truth?

Truth stands out little in a field of truths. However, it is a ravaging lion, in a field of lies.

Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.

People believe in everything except the reality.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.

Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.

You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.

Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are frequently influenced more by appearances than by reality.

The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living.

Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.

a crooked truth is far straight than a straight lie

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

The 'fact' of my actions frequently collide with the 'fiction' of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?

Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.

I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.

Stories are just lies made to look like truth.

Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they're true.

Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people.

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.

Did you look for the truth?You can't find it, don't you. You can't find the truth, because we even creating it.

They're all the same-- the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor-- they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth