Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.
To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.
You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.
People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.
I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
We like to be deceived.
And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time.
I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.
The spiritual consciousness is never deceived
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.
Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?
Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.