Deceived Quotes
314 quotes by 240 authors
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If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it…
— Jonathan Swift
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in…
— Martial
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Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually they are possessive…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia,…
— Eugene V. Debs
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One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your…
— Dalai Lama
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When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and…
— Washington Irving
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He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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My heart aches for America and its deceived people.
— Billy Graham
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Do not be deceived by impostors.
— Clayton Christensen
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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
— Ben Jonson
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Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
— Eliza Cook
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The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.
— Ken Lucas
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Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed…
— Ethan A. Hitchcock
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I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
— Charles Van Doren
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In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in…
— Moshe Katsav
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
— Rene Descartes
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Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by…
— Gilbert Murray
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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived
— Jonathan Swift
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For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them.
— Bible
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