Being Deceived Quotes

• 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.

  Neil Armstrong

  Use, Logic, Deceived

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• Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Infidelity, Likes, Would Be

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• Life is the art of being well deceived.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Deceived Us, Deception

  William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36

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• Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

  Lord Byron

  Unhappy, Literature, Sometimes

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• 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

  Learning, Answers, Deceit

  "Marx, Marshall and Keynes" (1955)

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• A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

  Simone Weil

  Fake People, Doctrine, Purpose

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Quests, Vulgar, Deceived

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Lying, Hype, Deception

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lying, Hatred, Dishonesty

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• One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Liars, Lying, Philosophical

  "The Prince".

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• It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Trust, Betrayal

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665-1678.

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• Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Deception, Investing, Deceiving

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.

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• 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

  Errors, People, Deception

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Deceived, Assessment

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• It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

  John Locke

  Art, Lying, Men

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.373

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• When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

  Mark Twain

  Deceiving Others, People, Deception

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.224, Univ of California Press

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• Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Hype, Deception, Earth

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• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

  John Updike

  Lying, Deceit, Lateness

  "Couples". Book by John Updike, 1968.

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• He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

  Horace

  Lying, Father, Deceiving Others

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• Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

  Dennis Green

  Thinking, Taste, Slavery

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• Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Fall, Blow, Men

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.94, Zed Books

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• There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Gone, Able

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• We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the Devil.

  Francis of Assisi

  Thinking, Dust, Should Have

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”

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• Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Opposites, Risk

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