A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Simone Weil

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
John Drinkwater

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

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.
Clare Short

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Thomas Kempis

But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.
Clare Short

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
Camille Pissarro

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
Camille Claudel

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
Taylor Caldwell

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.
Osama bin Laden

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
Charles Van Doren

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Ben Jonson

In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.
Moshe Katsav

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Rene Descartes

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
Marguerite Duras

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
Bernard Baruch

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
Sissela Bok

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt