A Quote by Clayton M. Christensen

Do not be deceived by impostors. — © Clayton M. Christensen
Do not be deceived by impostors.

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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.
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.
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.
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.
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.
The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.
It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.
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.
Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.
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