Deceived Quotes - Page 11

• Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Character, Son

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• Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Identity

  Benjamin Franklin (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence Together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography”

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• O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest me hast deceived me." This very same thing I myself now suffer, wretched and miserable, when I do not desire to be humbled, and to say with my whole soul that I myself am guilty of my perdition. But on the contrary I say: "That person over there inspired me to do or say this. He advised me and knocked me off the path." Woe is my poor soul which speaks such words filled with sin! O most shameless and irrational words of a shameless and irrational soul!

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Humility, Soul, Suffering

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• Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night. This is how to bring about the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period. If each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, Be not like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life grows ever shorter.

  Al-Ghazali

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Worry

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• It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Mind

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• When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

  Nido R Qubein

  Perseverance, People, Gears

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• If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Belief, Trouble, Young

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.373

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• A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Creativity, Science

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.110

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• Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Sorry, Cry, Life Is

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• A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Errors, Age

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• I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was affable, kind, extremely generous and charitable, but at the same time, not mature at all. He constantly lied and deceived me, and later returned feeling sorry, like a boy caught in mischief, asking to be forgiven one more time - and then we would start all over again.

  Emilie Schindler

  Sorry, Heart, Boys

  "Where Light and Shadow Meet : A Memoir". Book by Erika Rosenberg, 1997.

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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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• We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Would Be, Way, Given

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• Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Hate, Believe, Unconditional Love

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• The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Secret, Life Is

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• Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

  Megan Chance

  Believe, Eye, Sight

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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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• I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  This Day

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• In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make the horrendous charge that President Bush lied to or deceived the American people about the threat from Saddam.

  Laurence Silberman

  War, Iraq, People

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• It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Men, Agnostic

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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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• I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Errors, Laughing, Miracle

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• Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, War, Believe

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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