Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
William Booth

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.
Ethan A. Hitchcock

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
Francis Parker Yockey

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.
Mary Astell

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
Johann G. Seume

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.
Gilbert Murray

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

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.
Ken Lucas

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The world loves to be deceived.
Sebastian Franck

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
Charles Caleb Colton

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.
Jonathan Edwards

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
Joseph Butler

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Benjamin Franklin