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  • The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

    Crush   Atheist   Lying  
    Albert Einstein (2015). “Relativity: The Special and the General Theory”, p.3, Princeton University Press
  • We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.

    Sheep   Years   People  
  • There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory

    Heart   Gone   Able  
  • One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

    "The Prince".
  • The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

  • It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

    Men   Play   Cunning Man  
  • I believe hundreds of Christian people are being deceived by Satan now on this point, that they have not got the assurance of salvation just because they are not willing to take God at His word.

    Dwight L Moody (1958). “Finding God”, p.25, Moody Publishers
  • I wanted to deliver the emotions a man feels when he's in love. For example, through song "GG BE," I wanted to the express the feelings of being deceived by a woman (the song also contains the woman's counterargument).

    Song   Men   Feelings  
    Source: ygfamilyy.tumblr.com
  • We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the Devil.

    Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”
  • I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

    Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
  • Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

    "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.
  • When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

    Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.224, Univ of California Press
  • I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

    Running   Hate   Thinking  
  • Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

    Fall   Blow   Men  
    Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.94, Zed Books
  • It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

    Art   Lying   Men  
    John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.373
  • No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

  • It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

    Lying   Hype   Deception  
    "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.
  • We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

    Self   Deception   Enemy  
  • He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

  • In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it makes us feel. Here there seem to be no problems with a purely mental state account, no counterpart to the experience machine that could bring us to think that we are being deceived by mere appearances. [...] If I am suffering physical pain then I can be quite wrong about the organic cause of my affliction, or even about whether it has one, without that error diminishing in the slightest either the reality of my pain or its impact on the quality of my life.

    Pain   Reality   Thinking  
  • The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

    "Marx, Marshall and Keynes" (1955)
  • It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

    "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665-1678.
  • Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

    Men   Deceit   Ashamed  
  • I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

    Use   Logic   Deceived  
  • 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 be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.

    Powerful   Lying   Men  
    Frederick William Faber (1861). “Devotion to the Church”, p.27
  • Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

  • People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.

  • 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 how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

    Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.206
  • Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

    Love   Funny   Witty  
    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions
  • It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

    Lying   Deceit   Lateness  
    "Couples". Book by John Updike, 1968.
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