Quotes on Deceived

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.

Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.

It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it.

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.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.

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

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.