Top 11 Deceived Us Quotes

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Love, Life, Deceived Us

"A Happy Death" by Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, 1972.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Trust, Deceived Us, Hype

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

Plato, Men, Deceived Us

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us today as Black Leaders representing the welfare of Black people. We won't follow any leader today who comes on the basis of political party. Both parties (Democrat and Republican) are controlled by the same people who have abused our rights, and who have deceived us with false promises every time an election rolls around.

Malcolm X

Party, Rights, Deceived Us

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Voltaire

Deceived Us, Quiet, Silent

"'Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations' ('Essay on the Manners of Nations')". Book by Voltaire. Chapter CLXIII, 1756.

Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

Rene Descartes

Deceived Us, Prudent, Deceiving

Life is the art of being well deceived.

William Hazlitt

Art, Deceived Us, Deception

William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Oscar Wilde

Art, Deceived Us, Succeed

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Deceived Us, Deceiving, Deceived

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1932). “Goethe's poems and aphorisms”

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Bryant H. McGill

Lying, Hype, Deceived Us

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mean, Artist, Deceived Us

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.275, Cambridge University Press