Quotes About Deception

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

Nicci looked up at Kahlan. "Knives are not my talent." "It's not hard," Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. "When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like.

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

This is how tyrants win the will of the people: with lies.

Third Time tricked, marks the fool.

The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

Richard didn't trust Minister Chanboor. The man's tongue was too smooth. Truth didn't wear a tongue smooth; lies did.

But the truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

Better to see the dangers in the world and be ready when someone inevitably turns on you. It is a far preferable surprise to find that a person is kinder than you think, than to discover he is secretly a traitor.

It never failed to amaze her how simply saying something, no matter how untrue, was all it took to convince a large number of people of what you wanted them to believe.

Willfully turing aside from the truth is treason to one's self

Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid, they believe what they want to believe.

People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

That smile might have been on his lips, but it was not in his eyes.

Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt of immorality, from which sprouted the tendrils of evil.

Dalton tugged at his clothes, straightening them. "Is that so." "But the female will cheat on the male. Sometimes, while he is out collecting twigs for their nest, she will let another male take her.

Of course, disinformation, Quinn said. I can do that. I'll leave out critical events, then I'll put in false information and twist everything that has happened around into a vague, shadowy history that obscures what really took place.

They think they are smart and powerful because they have contrived to use my gift to put up the boundary to lure us to this place. What they have actually done is to attract lightning, and that lightning is about to strike them down.

Some are simply blind to the truth and fight for the lies they hear.

First Rule: people would believe any lie, either because they wanted to believe it was true, or because they feared it was.

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

Wizards first Rule: People will believe a lie because they want it to be true or because they're afraid it MIGHT be true

Keep your vision all-inclusive, never allowing it to lock on any one thing. That was the meaning of the starburst symbol: look everywhere at once, see nothing to the exclusion of all else—don't allow the enemy to direct your vision, or you will see what he wishes you to see. He will then come at you as you become bewildered, looking for his attack, and you will lose.