Deceiving Quotes - Page 6

To deceive ones selfe is very easie.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

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.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.