Hi everyone,
Isn’t it frustrating when you suspect that someone’s not being straight with you? There are all sorts of reasons why people sometimes lie, of course, and in some cases it’s through kindness and concern.
But often it’s malicious or just plain childishness.
Today I thought I’d look for some quotations on deception and there’s quite a selection, dating right back to Plato, so clearly it’s a part of the human psyche to learn the art of lying. I once saw an interesting documentary on TV in which child psychologists revealed that children learn to deceive very early in life, between 2 and 4 years of age!
So I suppose we should sometimes expect things to be not quite what they seem. Of course, what deceivers don’t always realise is that we may know of their deception. We just choose to live with it for a while.
The quotation I finally decided upon is this, once again from Buddha.
“Three things cannot long be hidden. The sun, the moon and the truth.”
Have a great day everyone.
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Quotation for Saturday 18th July 2020