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“Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.”

Wells Has Beens Book Done Seems Community Evolution Standards Evidence Claims Decades Contrary Deception Discussion Spite Exposed Icons Educator Textbooks Exaggerated Great Service

Author:Dean H. Kenyon

“The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.”

Children Death Deception Midst Superstitions Rescue

Book:The Blind Owl

Source: The Blind Owl

“Deception is everywhere.”

Author:Jim Sanborn

“The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.”

Has Beens Known Crosses Accounts Agents Former Deception Operations Officials Broads Committees Secrecy Chairman Defiance Outlines

Author:Ben Macintyre

“What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.”

Needs Deception Satire Rebirth Dissent Phony Insistence Uncompromising Platitudes Irreverence

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and deception. You can believe it's the truth only after you question, exhaust every avenue, and find that their story checks out. If you're a patriot, it's your duty to always question your government anyway, at every turn. A patriot is loyal to his country and his countrymen, not his government.”

“Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.”

“Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'”

Christian Evil Goodness Messages Deception Orthodox Scream Orthodox Christian Treachery Duplicity Falseness

Author:Alexander Schmemann

“There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.”

Killing Deception Deceit Suspicion Infidelity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.”

Men Should Art Facts Dream Lying Interest Demand Distance Deception Refuge Canvas Only Love Unattractive Foreground Far Distance

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.”

May Lost Late Victim Forgotten Deception Too Late Forgiven Betrayed Irrevocable

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.”

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.”

Eye Lying Ears Deception Deceit

Book:Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.”

Way May Has Beens Done Struggle Painting Amount Deception Labour Sweat

Author:Michelangelo

“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.”

Wells Has Beens Training Shadow Deception Get Back Academic Deceived

Author:Pablo Picasso

“What like a bullet can undeceive!”

Deception Bullets

Book:Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)

Source: Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)

“Art lies because it's social.”

Art Lying Social Deception

Book:The book of disquiet: a selection

Source: The book of disquiet: a selection

“It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.”

Impression Deception Charm Deceiving Novelty

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.”

Giving Mean Art Succeed Art Is Impression Deception Artifice Deceitful

Author:Edgar Degas

“A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.”

Crime Work Out Deception Artificial Cunning

Author:Edgar Degas

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

Trying Deception Deceiving

Author:Sidney Jourard

“Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.”

Mean Work Love Is Miracle Deception

Author:Eleanora Duse

“My pencil is like a fencer's foil.”

Deception Pencils Foils

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.”

Littles Said Walks Deception Spiders Spy Prettiest

Author:Mary Howitt

“And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.”

War Country Honor Demand And Love Debate Deception Deceit Midst Rooted Continuing Justified Here And Now Dissent Fidelity

Author:John F. Kerry

“All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.”

May Has Beens Brilliant Deception Illustration

Author:Wendy Beckett

“If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.”

Ifs Mind Art Would Be Eye Desire Minutes Genius Succeed Painter Deception Addresses Deceiving

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“Beauty is a mute deception.”

Beauty Deception Mute

Author:Theophrastus

“If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.”

People Ifs Self Seems Political Certain Sin Waste Prejudice Reform Deception Selfishness Flaws Wasting Time Self Deception Political Reform

Author:Steven Pinker

“Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.”

Joy Vices Deception Fairy Deceit Banquets Road To Happiness

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.”

Men Deception Great Men Sincerity

Author:Rembrandt

“My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.”

Beautiful Lost Landscape Deception Paradise Suggestions Nostalgic No Sympathy

Book:Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

Source: Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

“Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.”

Men Energy Hours Power Military Goes On Development Conflict Europe Oppression Deception Consideration Continents Defeated Expansion Arrested Thrift Crippled Militarism

Book:War and Other Essays

Source: War and Other Essays

“Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.”

Needs Facts Painting Deception Flats Viewers

Author:Robert Genn

“The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.”

Ifs Able Lying Air Bird Breathe Deception

Author:Eugene J. Martin

“The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light live in harmony. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected: results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has good effect.”

“I drag my myth around with me.”

Myth Deception Drag

Book:This is Orson Welles

Source: This is Orson Welles

“There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.”

People Thinking Teacher Ego Deception Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!”

Light Lying Doors Deception Mma

Author:Walel Watson

“What I've learned from fighting is that the lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp! Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!”

Light Lying Fighting Sides Doors Deception I've Learned Mma Camps Cages

Author:Walel Watson

“Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.”

Way Want Looks Play Able Watches Benefits Deception Make Sense I Want You Hindsight

Author:Lucy Lawless

“Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.”

Religious Deception Fraud Anti Religious

Author:Steve Fowler

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

Self Fool Deception Self Knowledge Comforting Self Deception

Book:How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

Source: How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

“Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.”

Self Matter Integrity Comfort Deception Self Deception Avoidance

Author:Orrin Woodward

“It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.”

World May Littles Made Different Real Facts Force Imagination Memories Creation Absolutes Available Deception Wicked Arbitrary Dolls Outside World Dummy Real Women

Book:The Guermantes Way

Source: The Guermantes Way

“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire.”

Giving Mind Real Spiritual Desire Wise Progress Achieve Duty Giving Up Temptation Deception Tranquility Rise Above Spiritual Progress

Author:Sivananda

“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Has Beens Self Facts Reality Might Truth Faces Dies Wish Deals Cities Refuse Deception Might Have Been Slogans Self Deception

Author:John F. Kennedy

“We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.”

People Benefits Deception Falsehood Deceiving Wickedness Compounds Knavery

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.”

Truth Literature Handle Deception Giants Hypocrisy Concealed Treachery Dynamite Handle The Truth

Author:Anais Nin

“It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.”

Ifs Ends Deception Deceiving Self Deception Deceiving Others

Author:Charles Caleb Colton