Deceiving Quotes - Page 2

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.

I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

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.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

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