Quotes on Being Deceived

We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

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

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.