Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive… — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Then God came to the woman and said to her, "Why did you not keep the commandment?" as if He wanted to… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I believe hundreds of Christian people are being deceived by Satan now on this point, that they have not got the assurance… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Even if all we have is a little, the Lord desires us to be joyfully generous, so that He will have for… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We are easily deceived about government because we are inclined to accept the following fallacies: (a) Anything legal is also moral. (b)… — H. Verlan Andersen Copy Share Image
I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
Never trust a friend, a brother, a wife, and a father because they can betray you. Consider what Judas did to Jesus,… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
He answered, "The woman whom You gave to be with me" (Gen 3:9-12), he did not say, "the woman deceived me," but… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
