The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be…

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

— Bernard Baruch

“We think we know them, but we really don’t. We let ourselves be deceived because we are always expecting the best out of those…

— Terry Brooks

Our eyes are capable of deceiving us. We are even willing sometimes to let ourselves be deceived.

— Frenchqueen

“Thus were we weaned to knowledge of the Will That wills the natural world, but wills us dead.”

— Louis MacNeice

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

— William Faulkner

I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived.

— Kevin Young

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead;…

— Andrew Wommack

Self-deceit is a sure defeat.

— Tasneem Hameed

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

— Anonymous

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse…

— William Shenstone

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

— Martin Buber

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

— Mark Twain

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…

— Laurence Silberman

You have been deceived by your own cold heart - a curse upon your house and all within it.

— Beauty And The Beast