Top 1200 Deceived Us Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

Mulayam Singh Yadav has deceived Muslims by making false promises for their welfare.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

The Congress-DMK combine has constantly deceived the people. They have neither safeguarded Tamils in India nor those in Sri Lanka.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

Br Orson Pratt is in trubble in consequence of his wife, hir feelings are so rought up that he dos not know whether his wife is wrong, or whether Josephs testimony and others are wrong and do lie and he deceived for 12 years or not; his is all but crazy about matters... we will not let Br. Orson go away from us he is too good a man to have a woman destroy him.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.