It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.
I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.
No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
There is none deceived but he that trusts.
If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on which the imposture was detected, should be clearly and logically stated, that those who have been sincerely yet unfortunately deceived, may perceive the nature of the deception and be reclaimed, and that those who continue to publish the delusion, may be exposed and silenced.
I've also learned that you don't always get to pick the people with whom you travel the journey. You sometimes may think you do, but don't be deceived. And the corollary of that - and this was my real lesson - is that you start to realize that you can love even the people you don't like and must love and help everyone.
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There's a reason for this. The world doesn't want to acknowledge it either. Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that you have had success, you have also had luck. And with luck comes obligation.
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.