Deceiving Quotes

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.

Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Never deceive a friend.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

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

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

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.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.

Let whoever can do so deceive me,
he will never bring it about that I am nothing,
so long as I continue to think I am something.

We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses.
But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive,
and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.