Top 100 Deceived Quotes
#1. But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.
Clare Short
#2. Mind sees magic because it can be deceived when allowed by heart.
Toba Beta
#3. He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.
Albert Einstein
#4. One thing is certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been deceived. Today, the ideal of limited government has been abandoned by the GOP, and real conservatives find their views no longer matter.
Ron Paul
#5. I learned life were no dream
I learned truth deceived
Man is not God
Life is a century
Death an instant
Gregory Corso
#6. We have all been robbed of the land we have loved for a thousand years. Do you not see that, Welshman? Can you not imagine his rage? We were not even conquered. We were deceived.
Edward Rutherfurd
#7. In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.
Moshe Katsav
#8. In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
Casey Affleck
#9. No cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
Peter S. Beagle
#10. Do not be deceived, what you sow is what you are going to reap.
Sunday Adelaja
#11. And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.
Julian Barnes
#12. 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.
Camille Claudel
#13. Nihilism, then, is the recognition of the long waste of strength, the agony of the "in vain," insecurity, the lack of any opportunity to recover and to regain composure- - being ashamed in front of oneself, as if one had deceived oneself all too long. -
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. If you judge by appearances in this place,' said Mme de Chartres, 'you will often be deceived, because what appears to be the case hardly ever is.
Madame De La Fayette
#16. These humans - they are cruel monsters. Liars. Deceitful. For the first time, I want to hurt them the way they hurt me. This is so unfair. My body feels numb, my energy spent, my mind deceived and angry.
Rachel Cohn
#17. Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#18. My friend, she is a woman." "No, no, you are deceived
she is a queen.
Alexandre Dumas
#19. A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
Vernon Howard
#20. It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.
Kate Chopin
#21. Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
William Booth
#22. Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.
Gautama Buddha
#23. Plato possessed the art to dress up illiberal suggestions in such a way that they deceived future ages, which admired the Republic without ever becoming aware of what was involved in its proposals.
Bertrand Russell
#24. I, Nikolai Ivanov, renounce my father, an ex-priest, because for many years he deceived the people by telling them that God exists, and that is the reason I am severing all my relations with him.77
Orlando Figes
#25. I too have been badly deceived in myself," he said, shaking his head. "Would you believe it? - I had no notion that I was such a monster of inhumanity as I have proved myself to be
Georgette Heyer
#26. Do not be deceived by this face for my brain remains magnificent. ---- Aunt Berna
Jenny Ackland
#27. A poor, deceived, and half-delirious girl, who, exclaiming that she was the most worthless thing alive or dead, attempted to cast herself into the fire amid all that wrecked and broken trumpery of the world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#28. 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.
Joan Robinson
#29. Many people criticize those who long to experience more in God, but I don't trust the ones who don't. We are not going to be kept free from deception by abandoning experience. In fact, the ones who do not hunger more for God are already deceived.
Bill Johnson
#30. To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
Plato
#31. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle.
#32. I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.
Marguerite De Navarre
#33. 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.
Bob Dylan
#34. Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
Charles Caleb Colton
#35. Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
Eliza Cook
#36. Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
Socrates
#37. We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived.
Billy Graham
#39. Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.
William Shakespeare
#40. A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.
John D. Voelker
#41. Don't be deceived into believing you know what time it is. Your watch does not tell you the time; it tells you the history of time.
Ray Noyes
#42. It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#43. His closed-eye appearances had deceived many visitors, I was told, but they might then find, to their cost, that these closed eyes veiled the sharpest attention, the clearest and deepest mind, they were ever likely to encounter. On
Oliver Sacks
#44. To choose anything besides God is to be deceived by the "Father of Lies" who promises happiness but delivers death.
Lorilyn Roberts
#45. Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#47. It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#48. 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.
Martial
#49. Yes, Satan is real, but so is Christ, and someday Satan will be defeated and Christ will rule forever. Don't be deceived, but open your heart and mind to Jesus Christ, and put your life into His hands.
Billy Graham
#50. Now all men suffer from ignorance of the truth; deceived by common report, they make for these ends as if they were good, and then, after having won their wish, and suffered much, they find them evil, or empty, or less important than they had expected.
Seneca.
#51. I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?
Jane Austen
#52. A man's life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, that is, he never is aware in the deepest sense that there is a God.
Soren Kierkegaard
#53. 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.
Thomas Paine
#55. I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#56. One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.
Dalai Lama
#58. Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.
Xenophon
#59. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
C.S. Lewis
#61. Evie," Lillian interupted impatiently, "men expect to be deceived in these matters. They're happiest that way. If one were straightforward with them the whole prospect of marriage would be too alarming, and none of them would ever do it.
Lisa Kleypas
#62. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Was it really? Better to have trusted and been deceived? Better to have shared your soul with another human being, only to find that honor meant nothing to him?
Kathryn Johnson
#63. I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception ... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
Charles Van Doren
#64. We are deceived by the appearance of right.
Horace
#65. A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
Charles Caleb Colton
#66. You must cultivate your wisdom and spirit. Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the Ways of different arts one by one. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realized the wisdom of strategy.
Miyamoto Musashi
#67. Every day Zuigan used to call out to himself, "Master!" and then he answered himself, "Yes, Sir!" And he added, "Awake, Awake!" and then answered, "Yes, Sir! Yes, Sir!"
"From now onwards, do not be deceived by others!" "No, Sir! I will not, Sir!"
Wumen Huikai
#68. I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.
Flannery O'Connor
#69. It was nearly a week before we returned. We found her waiting, and very hungry. She was full of affection; we had deceived her so often, broken faith with her, done so much to destroy her trust in us, yet she remained loyal.
Joy Adamson
#70. Beautiful roads do not always lead to beautiful places! Heaven may be hidden at the end of an ugly road! Do not be deceived by the beginning; try to see the end!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.
Michael Cadnum
#72. There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
Orson Scott Card
#73. A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.
David Bronstein
#74. Let them be spattered in humiliation, be spattered in corruption; let them hear the dirge that spills from my lips, once those of a human being but no longer. The angel who deceived me, the men who treated me like an animal. you've all made me into a Phantom.
Mizuki Nomura
#75. No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#76. Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt
#77. When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few will not be oppressed by the many, the poor will not be mocked by the wealthy, the humble will not be disdained by the honoured, and the simple will not be deceived by the cunning.
Motsi Mabuse
#78. He who takes delight in deceiving others must not complain when he is deceived himself.
David Miller
#79. Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me
Marquis De Sade
#80. And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.
Plato
#81. So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.
John Ruskin
#82. Don't be deceived by the thoughts of obscurity that lingers around your head. Go and shine the light in you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#83. 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.
Constantine P. Cavafy
#84. Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#85. One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#86. 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.
Zig Ziglar
#87. Almost all arguments for skepticism make reference to seemingly ridiculous possibilities - we are being deceived by an evil demon, life is just a dream, we are brains in vats. You might propose psychoanalysis, rather than philosophical reflection, for anyone who worries about these possibilities.
Richard Feldman
#88. Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.
Ephrem The Syrian
#90. We are easily deceived about government because we are inclined to accept the following fallacies: (a) Anything legal is also moral. (b) We are not individually responsible for government action. (c) A different moral law applies to men in concert than it does when they act alone.
H. Verlan Andersen
#91. Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Ben Jonson
#92. Even Christians taking in the teaching of the Bible can be deceived about our own sins. We somehow feel that consent to the teaching of scripture is equivalent to obedience.
Jerry Bridges
#94. It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#95. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.
Miyamoto Musashi
#96. Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith ... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.
Martin Luther
#97. Zui-Gan called out to himself every way, "Master."
Then he answered himself, "Yes, sir."
And then he added, "Become sober."
Again he answered, "Yes, sir."
"And after that," he continued, "do not be deceived by others."
"Yes, sir; yes, sir," he replied. -Mu-Mon-Kwan.
J.D. Salinger
#98. A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
Justin S. Holcomb
#99. Self-deception is an exotic theory, because it makes the paradoxical claim that something called "the self" can be both deceiver and deceived.
Steven Pinker
#100. We have been deceived that religiosity is equal to personal relationship with God.
Sunday Adelaja
