A Quote by Mark Twain

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

Peter Orner

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices, but ultimately we will be accountable for each choice we make. We may deceive others, but there is One we will never deceive. From the Book of Mormon we learn, "The keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name." [2 Nephi 9:41]

James E. Faust

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

Matthew Henry

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

J. C. Ryle

Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.

Cesare Borgia

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Agatha Christie

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

Sidney Jourard

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

Tim Cook

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.