Dishonesty And Deception Quotes & Sayings

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other. — Meridel Le Sueur

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies — Fred Munoz

Perhaps we still have a basically superstitious tendency to associate failure with dishonesty and guilt - failure being interpreted as "punishment." Even if a man starts out with good intentions, if he fails we tend to think he was somehow "at fault." If he was not guilty, he was at least "wrong." And "being wrong" is something we have not yet learned to face with equanimity and understanding. We either condemn it with god-like disdain or forgive it with god-like condescension. We do not manage to accept it with human compassion, humility and identification. Thus we never see the one truth that would help us begin to solve our ethical and political problems: that we are all more or less wrong, that we are all at fault, all limited and obstructed by our mixed motives, our self-deception, our greed, our self-righteousness and our tendency to aggressivity and hypocrisy. — Thomas Merton

The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am. — Andrew Klavan

Do we understand the gravity of the sin of dishonesty? It is not only unchristian, it is anti-Christian ... it is anti-Christ! Whether it be lying, or cheating, or robbery or deception; whether it is in the home, in business, in sports, or in the classroom; dishonesty is completely foreign to the teachings of Jesus. — Mark E. Petersen

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort. — Bobby Bowden

If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy on private property rights, the non-aggression principle and the law of free association. In the free and prosperous society, everyone may do precisely as he pleases, provided only that he does not initiate violence against non-aggressors. — Walter Block

In the presence of an overwhelming sincerity on the part of the disinherited, the dominant themselves are caught with no defense [ ... ] They are thrown back upon themselves for their rating. — Howard Thurman

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying. — Marcel Proust

The figure is not lifting the wands, he is holding them down. The difficulty consists in holding back what is, by nature, meant to fly. — Isabel Radow Kliegman

You see, I've read Mr. Grumbine's treatise on auras, and while it does depend on the shade, a green aura can be a mark of deception or dishonesty."
I shoot Kiernan a smug glance. While I'm certain this aura stuff is total bunk, he and Prudence both see the light as green. "Does this Mr. Grumbine say anything about blue auras?"
"Again, it depends on the shade. But it's usually associated with truth. — Rysa Walker

Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make — Loknath

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out. — Gary Hopkins

A partial truth is nothing more than an entire lie. — Fred Munoz

Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden. — Gary Hopkins

The truth cannot be woven out of a string of lies. — Fred Munoz

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves. — Bill W.

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations. — Thomas Jefferson

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life. — Carl Jung