Deceived Quotes
- So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — William Shakespeare
- The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led. — Eric Hoffer
- Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow… — Pablo Picasso
- Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. — Isaac Watts
- Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. — Arthur Helps
- It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves. — Philip Sidney
- Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear. — Bill W.
- The world wishes to be deceived. — Sebastian Franck
- Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers
- A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been… — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage… — Henry Adams
- Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? — Benjamin Franklin
- It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. — Confucius
- The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. — Rene Descartes
- There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived… — Jonathan Edwards
- Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. — William Hazlitt
- All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. — Kazuo Ishiguro
- We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. — Samuel Johnson