Quotes About Deception

science is about how not to be a sucker.

If you see a fraud and don't say fraud, you are a fraud.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

Poison is drunk in golden cups

one is more likely to be drinking poison in a golden cup than an ordinary one.

Randomness, in the end, is just unknowledge. The world is opaque and appearances fool us.

You are very likely to be fooled about their intentions.

you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

The beast in this book is not just the bell curve and the self-deceiving statistician, nor the Platonified scholar who needs theories to fool himself with. It is the drive to "focus" on what makes sense to us. Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others.

It is those who use others who are the most upset when someone uses them.

Which of these two statements seems more likely? Joey seemed happily married. He killed his wife. Joey seemed happily married. He killed his wife to get her inheritance.

Half the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.

If you lie to me, keep lying; don't hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.

major ramification of the ludic fallacy: how those whose job it is to make us aware of uncertainty fail us and divert us into bogus certainties through the back door.

The floor of the Parthenon is curved in reality so we can see it as straight.

Pretty' doesn't mean 'good,' you know, Geneva. Real life isn't like fairy tales. 'Pretty' simply means that by accident you've got things arranged on your outside in an extra-pleasing manner. It doesn't tell a thing about your inside.

Forget Ryan,' Heidi said dismissively. 'He's a tool.' 'I thought you liked him!' 'I did --until I saw how little convincing he needed from me to cheat on you. And then I realized, Ryan Dano is a tool.

Mom puts on a smile that looks like it belongs on somebody else's face.

Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.

I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.