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The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
— Wes Fesler
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
— George R R Martin
There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion...
— Virginia Alison
No blind folds, I want to see you. No masks, I want you to see me. There is no deception in truth.
— Calvin W. Allison
Truth lives on in the midst of deception ...
— Friedrich Schiller
Lies are like anchovies in a Caesar salad. You may not be able to see them, but your soul knows they are there.
— Molly Friedenfeld
You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.
— Erich Maria Remarque
She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.
— Nenia Campbell
Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A genius is no more - and no less - than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.
— Neel Burton
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
— Holly Black
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
— Khaled Hosseini
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
— Marco Tempest
Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth.
— David Jeremiah
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
— Jennifer Chiaverini
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true. — Demosthenes
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true. — Demosthenes
The truth cannot be woven out of a string of lies.
— Fred Munoz
To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception
— Agatha Christie
The Word of God is our measuring stick against all deception.
— Brian Reynolds
It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.
— Jocelyn Murray
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
— James Robertson
Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated.
— Molly Friedenfeld
The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states will arise. There is also self - deception.
— Bodhidharma
Subconsciously he knew why it was happening, but a truth suppressed is a reality ignored.
— Luke Montgomery
What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.
— Ira Levin
When all is a facade, wound within webs of deception, the truth is what you make of it.
— R.A. Salvatore
Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
— Terry Brooks
Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.
— Ellen P. Lacter
Pious" is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.
— Criss Jami
Someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.
— Sasa Stanisic
Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Deception is everything opposite the truth.
— Billy Graham
No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.
— Nikki Rosen
Be careful who influence and inspire your life. Their ways seem like leading to life but the truth is, they lead to eternal death
— Ann Marie Aguilar
People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there
— Zoe Marriott
When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.
— Eileen Wilks
The worst lies are almost always silence - or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.
— Jim Butcher
You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies
— Fred Munoz
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
— Anais Nin
The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.
— Dave Cullen
Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.
— Henry David Thoreau
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
— Criss Jami
In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.
— Arrian
The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
— Shannon L. Alder
The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.
— Cortney S. Warren
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
— Pablo Picasso
This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.
— Dave Eggers
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
— S.E. Hinton
The path of truth is profound - and so are the obstacles and possibilities for self-deception.
— Chogyam Trungpa
When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern the truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.
— Dean Koontz
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
— Marcus Aurelius
If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.
— Eugene Burger
Love! In the midst of deception, you are my trust.
— Debasish Mridha
I am quite willing to admit that they are also a deception but right now I believe in them so much that I infect them with truth.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.
— A.J. Darkholme
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
— Rene Descartes
... If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero,' said Lalu.
- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters. — Mullk Raj Anand
- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters. — Mullk Raj Anand
When all else fails, tell the truth.
— Donald T. Regan