Top 100 Deceives Quotes
#2. My father, my father, and dost thou not hear
The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?
'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;
Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
Blaise Pascal
#4. In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.
Josef Albers
#5. Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
Harley King
#6. If there is a media in a country which deceives its own people, that country needs no other enemy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. Whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.
Johanna Spyri
#8. One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.
John Edward Williams
#9. The point about bad money is not that it converges with the worth of the paper it is printed on. It is worse than that. Falsifying the information basis of all prices, it stultifies entrepreneurs, deceives savers, and fosters tyranny. Interest
George Gilder
#10. The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
Francis Bacon
#11. Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
Victor Hugo
#12. Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
Phyllis Bottome
#13. The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.
William Wordsworth
#14. Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
Phaedrus
#15. Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.
Guy De Maupassant
#16. Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one's own Self.
Dada Bhagwan
#17. Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
Blaise Pascal
#18. In fact, a case could be made that worrying about a problem actually prevents you from resolving it, because it deceives your mind into thinking that you're doing something when really you're not.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#20. The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
Alma Gluck
#21. Truth is a strange companion. It devastates one moment and enthralls the next. But it never deceives. And because of that, in the end, it comforts.
Susan Meissner
#22. Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
Alexander Pushkin
#23. A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#24. And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.
Donato Carrisi
#25. Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.
Julio Cortazar
#26. If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.
Vincent Van Gogh
#27. The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
Mahmoud Darwish
#28. Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.
Bell Hooks
#29. A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
Norm MacDonald
#30. Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.
Alexander Strauch
#31. A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#32. When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.
Blaise Pascal
#33. We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we might say that success is a hideous thing. Its false similarity to merit deceives men.
Victor Hugo
#34. Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.
Paul Of The Cross
#35. The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.
John Vance Cheney
#36. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should.
Jane Austen
#37. 201. - He who thinks he has the power to content the world greatly deceives himself, but he who thinks that the world cannot be content with him deceives himself yet more.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#38. The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. For love deceives the best of woman kind.
Homer
#40. Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important
Zbigniew Herbert
#41. Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.
Philip K. Dick
#42. Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
Thomas Hobbes
#43. Everything that deceives also enchants.
Plato
#44. It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
Samuel Johnson
#45. What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
Woodrow Wilson
#47. I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
Otto Von Bismarck
#48. Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Plato
#49. Guard yourself from lying; there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived.
Sextus Empiricus
#51. My mind blazed with ravishing lies. I thought, I cannot accept this gift of myself, myself as a gift, of my person, of having this mind that does not stop burning, that deceives itself and consumes itself and immolates itself and believes its own lies and chokes on plain fact.
Paul Harding
#52. Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Plato
#53. Memory fans out from imagination, and vice versa, and why not. Memory isn't a well but an offshoot. It goes secretly. Comes apart. Deceives. It's guilty of repurposing the meaning of deep meaning and poking fun at what you've emotionalized. And
Durga Chew-Bose
#54. Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
Plato
#55. Day deceives, but at night no one is safe from hallucinations.
Elizabeth Smart
#56. Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.
Donna Lynn Hope
#57. All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
Jean De La Bruyere
#58. The great dragon was thrown out - the ancient serpent ... the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. Revelation 12:9
Beth Moore
#59. For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.
John Irving
#60. A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#61. Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
Franz Kafka
#62. Pleasure is a difficult taskmaster, ' Trenton observed thoughtfully, 'and one that people do not mind submitting to. Most don't even realize that it is their master. Once they are enslaved to pleasure, it deceives them into believing that they control their own lives.
Erika Mathews
#63. Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#64. Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.
Ivan Turgenev
#65. There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#66. There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#67. The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.
Luc De Clapiers
#68. One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#69. One deceives oneself and unconsciously believes that real true passion is stirring one's soul; one unconsciously believes that there is something living, tangible in one's immaterial dreams! And is it delusion?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#70. Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light
what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
Phaedrus
#72. Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
Samuel Johnson
#73. Nature never deceives us;
it is always we who deceive ourselves.
Scott Lynch
#76. The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.
Conrad Aiken
#78. A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
William Hazlitt
#79. A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
Luc De Clapiers
#80. Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. Anything which deceives is evil, I believe.
Dan Simmons
#82. If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load [responsibility] (Galatians 6:3-5).
Myles Munroe
#84. Always tell as much truth as you can when you're lying," he said. "Nothing deceives like the truth." The
K.J. Parker
#85. Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.
Imre Kertesz
#86. Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#87. Thought always deceives us, when it becomes a substitute for action.
Marty Rubin
#88. Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.
George Zimmerman
#89. Neo-Darwinian theory has trouble accounting for the strange, sudden, and belated appearance of man, the conscious self which speaks, lies, deceives itself, and also tells the truth.
Walker Percy
#90. We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured ... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
Jane Austen
#91. The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not
Gorgias
#92. Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.
Leo Tolstoy
#93. Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Juvenal
#94. Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#95. Is there any one among you who believes he can be spared the way? Can he swindle his way past the pain of Christ? I say: Such a one deceives himself to his own detriment. He beds down on thorns and fire. No one can be spared the way of Christ, since this way leads to what is to come.
C. G. Jung
#96. Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#97. He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#98. He who thinks new favours will cause great personages to forget old injuries deceives himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#100. He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
Philip Neri
