A Quote by Philip Sidney

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

Philip Sidney

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Because Deceived Falls First Many Much Others Ourselves Out Times

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Philip Sidney
English - Soldier
November 30, 1554 - October 17, 1586

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

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

For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.

Dominic Cummings

I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived.

Kevin Young

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

Jonathan Edwards

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

Pablo Picasso

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

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.

Arthur Helps

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.

Ben Macintyre

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

Petronius

Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?