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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.
If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.
The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.
You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.
We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.
Love is beautiful,
A beautiful deception.
One falls in it
To deceive the other
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.
Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
As alleged, the most senior executives at Brixmor engaged in a years-long scheme to cook the books and deceive the investing public.
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
