But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.
We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.
Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.
When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
Appearances may be deceiving.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something. . . but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.
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.
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.
Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.
Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.
Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.
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.
I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!