Deceiving Quotes

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.

Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Never deceive a friend.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.

Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.