Deceived Us Quotes

#1. Shadows and light deceived us, but sounds we followed true.

David Bowles

#2. It is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once.

Rene Descartes

#3. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

#4. We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. It is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.

Rene Descartes

#6. We live in an age when we are no longer surprised that people let us down the only surprise is that we are so constantly willing to allow ourselves to be deceived.

Charles Bukowski

#7. 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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Sophie Arnould

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#12. We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived.

Billy Graham

#13. We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by our outward show of 'civilized' manners and 'cultured' social behavior into believing that self-concern, desirous attachment, aversion, and indifference are steadily losing their hold over us.

Stephen Batchelor

#14. When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

Washington Irving

#15. All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.

Paulo Coelho

#16. You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

Henry Bolingbroke

#17. Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

Michel De Montaigne

#18. If we can come up with a God we can fully explain, we have come up with a different God from the Bible's. We must beware of recreating an image of God that makes us feel better. Of this I'm certain: If in our pursuit of greater knowledge God seems to have gotten smaller, we have been deceived.

Beth Moore

#19. Walk into any bookstore and you'll find hundreds of books telling you how to live. Don't be misled, and don't be deceived. Instead, build your life on the truth God has given us in His Word.

Billy Graham

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

Bernard Baruch

#21. 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?

R. Scott Bakker

#22. How sad that youth, with all its power,
Was given us in vain, to burn;
That we betrayed it every hour,
And were deceived by it in turn;

Ivan Turgenev

#23. We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us ...

Leonardo Da Vinci

#24. So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice ...

William Faulkner

#25. Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

Al Gore

#26. It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a bland outside.

William Faulkner

#27. We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead; we need to exercise the authority He has given us and receive His blessings.

Andrew Wommack

#28. We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#29. They tell us that the rules of power and the rules of war are the same, the art is to deceive; and you will deceive, and be deceived in your turn, whether you are an ambassador or a suitor.

Hilary Mantel

#30. So they told us all about how other kids were deceived by their parents, how the toys the grown-ups claimed were made by little elves wearing bell caps in their workshop at the North Pole actually had labels on them saying MADE IN JAPAN.

Jeannette Walls

#31. It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

Oscar Wilde

#32. We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

Charlotte Lennox