Deceiving Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

— Anonymous

We are our own aptest deceiver.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

; We must not hate people who have done wrong to us. For as soon as we being to step to their level, we…

— Me

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a…

— Giacomo Casanova

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

— Giacomo Casanova

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I prefer to be hated than be false and fool people.

— Kristen Stewart

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

— William Faulkner

“In the modern world, those whom we effectively hate are distant groups, especially foreign nations. We conceive them abstractly, and deceive ourselves into the…

— Bertrand Russell