Misdirection Quotes

A zealot is a person who, having forgotten his original purpose, redoubles his efforts.

Accuse your enemy of what you are doing as you are doing to create confusion.

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

[The devil] al­ways sends er­rors into the world in pairs—pairs of op­posites. And he al­ways en­cour­ages us to spend a lot of time think­ing about which is the worse.... He re­lies on your ex­tra dis­like of the one er­ror to draw you grad­u­ally into the op­po­site one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through be­tween both er­rors. We have no other con­cern than that with ei­ther of them.

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.

There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.

My dear, the real truth always sounds improbable, do you know that? To make truth sound probable you must always mix in some falsehood with it. Men have always done so.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.