A Quote by Sissela Bok

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

Sissela Bok

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Sissela Bok
Swedish - Philosopher
Born: December 2, 1934

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

Olusegun Obasanjo

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Rene Descartes

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

Austin O'Malley

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

Christina, Queen of Sweden

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

Johann G. Seume

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Casey Affleck

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

Ignatius of Antioch

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

C. S. Lewis

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

François-René de Chateaubriand

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

Matthew Henry

Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

Rene Descartes

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.