Deceiving Quote by Eric Hoffer

None are deceived but they that confide.

— Benjamin Franklin

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

— Mardy Grothe

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

— Demosthenes

Self-deception helps us deceive.

— David Livingstone

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

— Petronius

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

— Demosthenes

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

— Anonymous

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

— Greg LeMond

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to…

— Joseph Butler

The world loves to be deceived.

— Sebastian Franck