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Deceived Quotes by Rene Descartes
- Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from…
- The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
- But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so…
- What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I…
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
More Deceived Quotes
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
- Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. — Bernard Baruch
- In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest. — Casey Affleck
- Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. — Sissela Bok
- Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock… — William Booth
- Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. — Lord Byron
- I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. — Taylor Caldwell
- You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves… — Giacomo Casanova
- The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. — Emile M. Cioran
- I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to… — Camille Claudel
- The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through… — Albert Einstein
- Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself. — Benjamin Franklin