John Dewey Quotes

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

... gross, barefaced inconsistency.

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

Hypocrites are more enraging than extremists, as every campaign operative knows.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.

This is an example of hypocrisy

Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. That’s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then it’s not interesting anymore. It’s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

I'm really good at pretending.