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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.
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.
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.
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
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.
As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
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.
...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.
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.
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
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.
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.
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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.
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
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.
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.
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.
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.
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
The Congress-DMK combine has constantly deceived the people. They have neither safeguarded Tamils in India nor those in Sri Lanka.
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.
Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.
Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.
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.
He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.
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.
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
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.
The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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.
I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.
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.
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
