Deceived Quotes
Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.
Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.
I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.
A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."
Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.
We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.
Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.
The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.
Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.
I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.
Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.
You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.
I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.
Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.
Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions.
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.
...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
Don't be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around; the path that needs changing is the one in your mind.
It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.