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I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.
Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.
Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.
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.
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
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.
Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.
The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.
He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness, his inferiors take advantage of his abilities.
Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.
I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.
But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.
And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.
In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous.