The easiest way to deceive people is to create a false impression. This can be done by creating an illusion of something being a certain way that it isn’t. Unfortunately, all deception approaches can’t be 100% foolproof: some deception methods could be effective on some occasions but not work on other events.
People who tell themselves lies are easily deceived. However, they are intellectually honest (instead of deceptive) and tend not to lie about other people’s true intentions.
Browse the collection of some greatest deception quotes that will play an influential role in navigating the lies of life and making your soul and m mind calm.
55 Inspirational Deception Quotes That Are Powerful
1. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain
2. “It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.” ~ John Locke
3. “We lie best when we lie to ourselves.” ~ Stephen King
4. “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde
5. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” ~ Winston Churchill
6. “While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.” ~ Sissela Bok
7. “Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
8. “Reality denied comes back to haunt.” ~ Philip K. Dick
9. “Don’t tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.” ~ Samuel Johnson
10. “No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth.” ~ Sara Shepard
11. “Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.” ~ Russ Roberts
12. “Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.” ~ Moss Hart
13. “If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
14. “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
16. “The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.” ~ Pierre Charron
17. “Self-deception helps us deceive.” ~ David Livingstone
18. “The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.” ~ Hitopadesa
19. “We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.” ~ Sidney Jourard
20. “An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.” ~ John Bevere
21. “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
22. “A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.” ~ Demosthenes
23. “Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.” ~ Lauryn Hill
24. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
25. “Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
26. “The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is that they think they are cleverer than we are.” ~ François de La Rochefoucauld
27. “We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.” ~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld
28. “A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” ~ Alfred Tennyson
29. “Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.” ~ Johann G. Seume
30. “A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.” ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
31. “The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.” ~ Plato
32. “The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.” ~ John Tillotson
33. “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
34. “It’s a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.” ~ Major Owens
35. “We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36. “To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.” ~ William James
37. “Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.” ~ Patricia Briggs
38. “People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.” ~ Charles Dudley Warner
39. “Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.” — James E. Faust
40. “Beware of becoming a pawn in your own game.” ~ Marty Rubin
41. “He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.” ~ Horace
42. “He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.” ~ Plautus
43. “For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” ~ Bo Bennett
44. “Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.” ~ John Wanamaker
45. “When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.” ~ Mark Twain
46. “All war is based on deception.” ~ Sun Tzu
47. “Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.” ~ Plato
48. “You can fool yourself, you know. You’d think it’s impossible, but it turns out it’s the easiest thing of all.” ~ Jodi Picoult
49. “All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.” ~ Robert Southey
50. “I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
51. “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde
52. “When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.” ~ Mardy Grothe
53. “Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end.” ~ Rachel Hawthrone
54. “Anything is better than lies and deceit!” ~ Leo Tolstoy
55. “Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.” ~ E. V. Lucas
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