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So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice ... — William Faulkner

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

It is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once. — Rene Descartes

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us ... — Leonardo Da Vinci

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. — St. Catherine Of Siena

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

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

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

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality. — Al Gore

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

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

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

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

Shadows and light deceived us, but sounds we followed true. — David Bowles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. — Samuel Johnson

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none. — Charlotte Lennox

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. — Henry Bolingbroke

It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable. — Sophie Arnould

We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. — Billy Graham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do not be deceived by impostors. — Clayton Christensen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The spiritual consciousness is never deceived — Billy Meier

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