Topic: “Deception”

🔎 Lexicon containing “Deception”

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Deception

The act of causing false belief or misunderstanding, whether intentionally or structurally, often involving distortion of truth.

💬 Quote Library — containing “Deception”

It’s Easier to Fool People

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled

from Unknown (Misattributed to Mark Twain)

📖 Excerpts Library

They Are Metaphysicists Rather Than Scientists

"The theory," he said, "wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people...

Source: New York Times article July 11th 1935

A Mass of Error and Deceptive Ideas

The theory of relativity he described as "a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.

Source: New York Times article July 11th 1935

CIA Funding Was Involved

The CIA's intrusion into the foundation field in the 1960s can only be described as massive. Excluding grants from the "Big Three"- Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie--of the 700 grants over $10,000 given by 164 other foundations during the period 1963-1966,...

Source: Final Report Of The Church Committee

The Use of Philanthropic Organizations

The use of philanthropic organizations was a convenient way to pass funds, in that large amounts could be transferred rapidly, and in a form that need not alert unwitting officers of the recipient organizations to their source. In addition, foundation...

Source: Final Report Of The Church Committee