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The truth is helpless when up against perception
Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.
For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.
Appearances are deceptive.
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.
We are deceived by the appearance of right.
Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.
An accurate fact in an incorrect context is an effective lie. As
An inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.
Do not be deceived by impostors.
Perception is projection
THE MISCONCEPTION: You are more concerned with the validity of information than the person delivering it. THE TRUTH: The status and credentials of an individual greatly influence your perception of that individual's message.
Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
The most effective way to distort reality is to deny it; if we tell ourselves there isn't a problem, then we never have to worry about what to do about it. And the most effective way to deny a reality is to make it invisible.
Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.
Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal
To be naive and easily deceived is impermissible, today more than ever, when the prevailing untruths may lead to a catastrophe because they blind people to real dangers and real possibilities.
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
Your perception may not be my reality
When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives - about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world.
The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.
Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
To exaggerate is to weaken.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
When we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.
The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
A lie twice believed is self decieved
Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
To deceive ones selfe is very easie.
Upon occasion, we misunderstand ourselves, or we lose faith. Whichever the case, we say things we think are true, only to find they are not.
I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.
To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
The illusion of our.
One mistake cannot justify another.
Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.
Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing them into our own preferred ideas and gestalts...
Where there are two people, there is untruth.
Illusions may flatter us, confuse us, or betray us, Drakkonwehr. Or they may be images we cling to when the truth is too difficult to face.
Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
To overvalue something is a form of lying.
Perception can be changed
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Understate and over-prove.
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
Sometimes distortions can speak the truth. They confirm for me what is real by troubling me with something false.
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.
If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.
There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.
Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.
THE MISCONCEPTION: You know when you are lying to yourself. THE TRUTH: You are often ignorant of your motivations and create fictional narratives to explain your decisions, emotions, and history without realizing it.
I detest those who deceive me...
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth
it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
In another time,
What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted
To say that language is error, and all things are wronged
By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be
Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.
If you judge by appearances in this place,' said Mme de Chartres, 'you will often be deceived, because what appears to be the case hardly ever is.
I think it was Mark Twain who said, Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.
If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.
Sometimes it's hard to seperate illusion from reality because you have to use one to obtain the other. And even though you know the difference between the truth and a lie, there are moments when it's best to pretend, even to yourself.
To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.
What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.
If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead.
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
To believe the non-Self's intent as the Self's intent is indeed an illusion. To believe that 'I am the doer'; where the doer is someone else is indeed an illusion.
A lie is any communication with intent to deceive,
Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.
Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true. This doesn't mean you should be duplicitous or deceitful, but don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.
People lie. Promises are broken. A
Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.