Deceived Quotes
314 quotes by 246 authors
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[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you…
— Alfred de Musset
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You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when…
— Gustave Flaubert
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MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If…
— Phineas Quimby
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What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes…
— C.S. Lewis
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Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
— Yasmin Mogahed
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It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
— Publilius Syrus
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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to…
— Samuel Johnson
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My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.
— Bob Dylan
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For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan…
— Pope Pius XI
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Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the…
— Bob Dylan
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The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.
— Bob Dylan
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The world loves to be deceived.
— Sebastian Franck
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Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.
— Ernie J Zelinski
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Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the…
— Ephrem the Syrian
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We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would…
— Frederick William Faber
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