Deceived Quotes
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.
When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.
Some people may regard my views well and show respect to me, and I hope they have not deceived themselves in doing so. Some people think that I am a leader of a movement.
Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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.
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.
Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.
I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant
Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.
Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.