Deceived Quotes

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Liars, Lying, Philosophical

  "The Prince".

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• We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Sarcastic, Teaching

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1982). “Wilhelm Meister's Years of Travel or the Renunciants”, Riverrun Pr

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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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• 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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• The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

  Rene Descartes

  Trust, Deceived Us, Hype

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• 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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• 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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• Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

  William Booth

  Men, Rocks, Sea

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• Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Revolution, Rules For Radicals

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.91, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Men

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

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lying, Hatred, Dishonesty

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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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• 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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• We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Trust, Believe

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.433

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• You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Knaves, Fool, Qualms

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Truth, America, People

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• I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Betrayed, Has Beens

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• It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

  Marguerite Duras

  Love, Men, He Man

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.125, Grove Press

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• Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Deceived Us, Succeed

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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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• We like to be deceived.

  Blaise Pascal

  Deception

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

  Petrarch

  Suspects

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• Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

  Camille Pissarro

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Risk

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