The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Giving up is the naysayer within us proclaiming that heroes are the stuff of fiction and the thought of us ever being… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone,… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Inquired deception of every other man complained that he deceived no one but you really do not,He did not cheat me because… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The sight of the eye, the hearing of the ear, the touch of the hand may each and all be deceived, but… — Moses Thatcher Copy Share Image
A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in .… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of… — Ethan A. Hitchcock Copy Share Image
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“I am on the verge of tears because of this declaration and my insides twist knowing how I have truly deceived him.… — M. D. Waters Copy Share Image
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The strategy of fear is to convince us that we are underestimating it so that we will fall prey to the paralysis… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
What's worse than being alone? Being used, lied to, deceived, fucked over, left behind, and completely forgotten. …Just saying. — Shruti Copy Share Image
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.” — John Knowles Copy Share Image
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you live in torment if you do not trust enough! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
“Deceit or anything that involves self-deception is the source of corruption within an individual.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows? — Martial Copy Share Image
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
“I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it’s a 5-point scale, though I asked… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image