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It is better to be hurt by the raw truth rather than to be comfortably deceived. - Anonymous — Monica Murphy

We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really 'lived' a day in our lives. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me — Marquis De Sade

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. — Sissela Bok

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. — Fulke Greville

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Do not be deceived, what you sow is what you are going to reap. — Sunday Adelaja

If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the truth, you will not be easily deceived. — Molly Friedenfeld

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? — Benjamin Franklin

We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity. — Anna M. Aquino

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. — Lord Byron

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going. — Nido R. Qubein

Potemkin only deceived his empress;
how much more despicable to deceive oneself. — Hjalmar Soderberg

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived. — James Randi

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they've told themselves. — Don DeLillo

Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands. — C. G. Jung

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God. — Ignatius Of Antioch

Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world — Munia Khan

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. — Oscar Wilde

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content. — Will Durant

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed. — Henry MacKenzie

The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations. — Dennis Green

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived. — Ernie J Zelinski

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived. — Taylor Swift

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived. — Petronius

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. — Sun Myung Moon

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism. — Yasmin Mogahed

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. — Rene Descartes

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. — Ben Jonson

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived. — Vernon Howard

Only those who do not wish to see can be deceived. — Dianna Hardy

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves. — Philip Sidney

How sad that youth, with all its power,
Was given us in vain, to burn;
That we betrayed it every hour,
And were deceived by it in turn; — Ivan Turgenev

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ... — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. — Frank Crane

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. — Bernard Baruch

I learned life were no dream
I learned truth deceived
Man is not God
Life is a century
Death an instant — Gregory Corso

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern the truth, and could himself be more easily deceived. — Dean Koontz

Most are deceived by and drawn to behavior and things that seem right, good, and wise but are contrary to His wisdom. — John Bevere

It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love. — Mary Wollstonecraft

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Holy crap, my heart was arrogant to believe her spotless track record could stay that way. — Jennifer Harrison

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived. — Said Nursi

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Like all cats, they could see what was invisible and could not be deceived by a simple spell. 'This parade — Andrzej Sapkowski

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. — Gilbert Murray

More dangers have deceived men than forced them. — Francis Bacon

All know that they must die; but many are deceived by picturing to themselves death at such a distance as if it could never come near them. — Alfonso Maria De Liguori

Don't be deceived by the thoughts of obscurity that lingers around your head. Go and shine the light in you. — Israelmore Ayivor

No cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them. — Peter S. Beagle

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat. — Dejan Stojanovic

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. — Emile M. Cioran

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. — Marguerite Duras

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 ... (Bk2:3) — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. — Tadeusz Borowski

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base. — Plato

It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived. — Fidel Castro

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived. — Bill Johnson

Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself — Guy Finley

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression. — Margaret Atwood

Do not be deceived by impostors. — Clayton Christensen

Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth. — Marty Rubin

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. — Arthur Helps

The idea of having no sin is a delusion; you are altogether deceived if you say so; — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He is on a mission to rescue a people who are so utterly deceived most of them don't even want to be rescued. — John Eldredge

No one willingly reverts to the past unless all his actions have passed his own censorship, which is never deceived. — Seneca.

Pangloss most cruelly deceived me when he said that everything in the world is for the best. — Voltaire

I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled. — Marguerite De Navarre

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. — Camille Claudel

To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe. — Ed Parker

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived. — Luc De Clapiers

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived. — Niccolo Machiavelli

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. — Henry Adams

When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder. — Dante Alighieri

It is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once. — Rene Descartes

Because it can be deceived, the majority is as error-prone as any other ruler, but unlike other rulers, it can never be destroyed. — F.F. White

The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived... — Bipan Chandra

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone. — Imre Kertesz

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe. — Bob Dylan

Some people in your life
Touch you so very deeply
That you drown totally in that depth. — Amit Abraham

Don't ever be deceived by the size or the lack of size of an object. Sometimes the smallest can be the mightiest of them all. — Maxwell Grantly

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. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The spiritual consciousness is never deceived — Billy Meier

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? — Joseph Butler