Deceived Quotes

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Quests, Vulgar, Versions

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

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• There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Hypocrite, Men, Discovery

  Jonathan Edwards (1844). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.52

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Assessment, Self Assessment

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Way, Oneself

  "The Atlanta Co-Ed Murder". Book by Glen C. Carrington (p. 165), August 2010.

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• Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Honesty, Deception

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• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hype

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1845). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations”, p.129, New York, Wiley & Putnam

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• There is none deceived but he that trusts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Trust, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Jesus, Lakes

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.373, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Pain, Light, Heartache

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

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lying, Hatred, Dishonesty

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

  Sissela Bok

  Hype, Deception, Deceiving

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.7, Vintage

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• Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Men

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

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Hype, Deception, Earth

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• The world loves to be deceived.

  Sebastian Franck

  World Love, World

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• It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

  Publilius Syrus

  Deception, Tolerable

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• But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Benefits, Littles, Endeavor

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• Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

  Joseph Butler

  Fate, Desire, Action

  'Fifteen Sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel' (1726) no. 7

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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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• There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Stupid, Would Be, Fraud

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.60

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

  Charles Van Doren

  Quiz Show, My Friends, Millions

  "Quiz Show". 1994.

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