We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. — Bernard Nathanson
There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement. — Leonardo da Vinci
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. — George Crabbe
We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States. — Sanjay Gupta
By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals. — Dalai Lama
... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold. — Catharine Beecher
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. — Rene Descartes
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. — Plato
Deceive me about the price but not about the goods. —
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. — Niccolo Machiavelli
How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man. — Julia Alvarez
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men. — Rembrandt
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. — Saul Bellow
No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived. — James Randi
Deceived Us Image Quotes
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Do Not Be Deceived Quotes
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you. — Clare of Assisi
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. — C. S. Lewis
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Your brother, your brother, do not be deceived by greed. — Moroccan Proverbs
Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man. — Umar
It's like, if this person is going to betray me or deceive me, they're going to do it regardless whether or not I'm texting him constantly or looking through him phone or being jealous. And once you realize that, then jealousy isn't a factor. You're just you, and you can live in the moment. — Crystal Reed
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. — Isaac Watts
Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in my heart, like Why are we here? And where do we go? And how come it's so hard? It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving, I'll tell you one thing, it's so much better when we're together. — Jack Johnson
Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty. — Judah the Prince
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
What Defines Us Quotes
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do. — Jane Austen
The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads. — Shelby Foote
Happiness is a skill that everyone has the ability to cultivate and develop. One of the problems we face in our quest for happiness is that we have not actually defined what it means for us. — Rangan Chatterjee
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
The child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth. He is not, therefore, mistaking one thing for another, he is simply identifying them one with another by what seems to us a quaint extension of the word "lie". — Jean Piaget
We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward. — Scott Jurek
Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships. — Donald O. Clifton
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love. — James K. A. Smith
Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems. — Martin Parr
It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings. — Yuri Milner
Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition. — Gene Spafford
Being Deceived Quotes
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. — Alan Turing
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
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism. — Roger Sherman
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another. — Osamu Dazai
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet. — Ronaldo
Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
. . . you should know that there is present with you the angel whom God has appointed for each man. . . This angel, who is sleepless and cannot be deceived, is always present with you; he sees all things and is not hindered by darkness. You should know, too, that with him is God. — Anthony the Great
Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God. — Pope Francis
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived. — Said Nursi
The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time. — Eckhart Tolle
When You Are Deceived Quotes
There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself? — Jodi Picoult
I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more. — Camille Claudel
Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it. — Elbert Hubbard
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver. — David Jeremiah
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. — Neal Shusterman
Deceiving Ourselves Quotes
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. — Carl Jung
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
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. — Paul Washer
If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. — Plato
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive. — Saint Augustine
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? — Euripides
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics. — Vladimir Lenin
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one way. We ourselves must walk the path.
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye. — Carlos Castaneda
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian — Guru Nanak
I’m a human being, I’m not anyone’s mascot! And I am America’s conscience. And that’s what they don’t want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government. — Russell Means
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. — Henry A. Wallace
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. — Henry A. Wallace
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. — John Scott
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present. — Octavio Paz
Deceiving Others Quotes
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons. — Robert Greene
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy. — Blaise Pascal
I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players. — Ronaldinho
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. — Saint Francis de Sales
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. — Oscar Wilde
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger. — Orson Scott Card
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself. — Ninon De L'Enclos
Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request. — Dalai Lama
An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality. — John Galt
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. — Horace
Those Who Deceive Quotes
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
Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. — Sun Myung Moon
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
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good. — Isocrates
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence. — Samuel Johnson
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
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. — Rene Descartes
The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive. — Bryant H. McGill
For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein. — Paul Virilio
We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead; we need to exercise the authority He has given us and receive His blessings. — Andrew Wommack
Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight. — Samuel Johnson
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. — Antoine Lavoisier
The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”) — Thomas Ligotti
Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. — Vincent Voiture
The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things. — Leonardo da Vinci
Self-deception helps us deceive. — David Livingstone
What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag. — Helen Fisher
Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived. — John Le Carre
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. — Jane Austen
We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us. — Samuel Johnson
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
Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again. — Stephen Covey
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume. — Richard Whately
Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and success in business are deceptive. If we die tomorrow they will disappear tomorrow, and nothing will be left for our future. Wisdom, however, will never deceive us. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so? — R. Scott Bakker
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. — Joseph Glanvill
O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret. — Joaquin Miller
Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. — Sayings
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. — Charles Caleb Colton
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. — Blaise Pascal
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us. — Saint Augustine
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should. — Jane Austen
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. — Samuel Johnson
I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. — Sarah Palin
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay. — David Korten
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us. — George Horace Lorimer
Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings. — Albert Schweitzer
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave — Blaise Pascal
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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