A Quote by Cardinal Richelieu

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Cardinal Richelieu

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Deception Kings Knowledge

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Cardinal Richelieu
French - Priest
September 9, 1585 - December 4, 1642

If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.

Robert Trivers

What is the most fascinating kind of self-deception to me, and a kind that isn't necessarily unhealthy, is what Friedrich Nietzsche called "strategic self-deception." The kind of self-deception that you can engage in with your eyes wide open. You do it because you say, "There's things that I couldn't accomplish without this kind of self-deception."

Clancy Martin

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

Teju Cole

If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.

Errol Morris

Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.

Thomas a Kempis

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Edwin Louis Cole

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Cardinal Richelieu

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

Cardinal Richelieu

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

Soren Kierkegaard

Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

Julian Assange

the constant shower of the sun's mane erases the footprints on thin ice do not fear deception for the world lies atop deception ~Toushiro Hitsugaya

Tite Kubo

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

Harriet Lerner

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

Russ Roberts

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.