Top 412 Deceived Quotes & Sayings

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

We like to be deceived.

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.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

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

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

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

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

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.

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

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

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

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.

The spiritual consciousness is never deceived

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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

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.

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

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.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

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.

Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.

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

They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

The world wishes to be deceived.

I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.

None are deceived but they that confide.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

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

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

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 loves to be deceived.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

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

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

The world wants to be deceived.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

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.

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.

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

Do not be deceived by impostors.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?