Deceived Quotes

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

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

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

Things are not what they seem.

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

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

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

The spiritual consciousness is never deceived

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

The world wants to be deceived.

Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

We like to be deceived.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

The world loves to be deceived.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.

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 have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

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

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

None are deceived but they that confide.

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

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

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

The less you trust others,
the less you will be deceived.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.