Appearances may be deceiving.
Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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.
We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.
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.
We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.
The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.
In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
Reason deceives us more often than does nature.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
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.
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.