Deceived Quotes
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The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression.
Albert Einstein
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
John Locke Nazareth
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The world loves to be deceived.
Sebastian Franck
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Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.
William Warburton
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I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The world wishes to be deceived.
Sebastian Franck
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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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I wanted to deliver the emotions a man feels when he's in love. For example, through song "GG BE," I wanted to the express the feelings of being deceived by a woman (the song also contains the woman's counterargument).
Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
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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
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What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his feet. Could it be because Christ knew that these women, who had been deceived by counterfeit loves, were actually looking for him, the true Bridegroom?
Christopher West
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Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.
Socrates
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There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Lord Byron
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So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.
William Shakespeare
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Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
Arthur Helps
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Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
Cato the Younger
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True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.
William Shakespeare
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
Seneca the Younger