Deceived Quotes - Page 16

• When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Men, Strategy

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Atoms, Flavor

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• And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

  Julian Barnes

  Love You, Order, Names

  Julian Barnes (2010). “Arthur & George”, p.308, Random House

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• A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

  John D. Voelker

  Husband, Writing, Appreciate

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• The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Confused, Childhood

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• It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.

  Sophie Arnould

  Deceit, Miserable, Being Deceived

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• As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values his Catholic name and his eternal salvation as he ought to value them. Let no one be deceived by a pretense of honesty. It may seem to some that Freemasons demand nothing that is openly contrary to religion and morality; but, as the whole principle and object of the sect lies in what is vicious and criminal, to join with these men or in any way to help them cannot be lawful

  Pope Leo XIII

  Honesty, Lying, Men

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.76, TAN Books

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• Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

  Michael Lewis

  Inspirational, Graduation, Luck

  "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.

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• Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

  Lucy Parsons

  Vote, Wealth, Rich

  "Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937". Book by Lucy Parsons, 2004.

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• We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions - by abandoning every value except the will to power - they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, Sacrifice, Presidential

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it makes us feel. Here there seem to be no problems with a purely mental state account, no counterpart to the experience machine that could bring us to think that we are being deceived by mere appearances. [...] If I am suffering physical pain then I can be quite wrong about the organic cause of my affliction, or even about whether it has one, without that error diminishing in the slightest either the reality of my pain or its impact on the quality of my life.

  L. W. Sumner

  Pain, Reality, Thinking

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• In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a false opinion for the truth shall be punished ... Be not deceived: if any man follows him who separates from the truth, he shall not inherit the kingdom of God; and if any man does not stand aloof from the preacher of falsehood he shall be condemned to Hell.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Men, Doe, Kingdoms

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• Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.

  Fanny Kemble

  Lying, Believe, Blessed

  Fanny Kemble (1844). “Poems”, p.111

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• Yes, Satan is real, but so is Christ, and someday Satan will be defeated and Christ will rule forever. Don't be deceived, but open your heart and mind to Jesus Christ, and put your life into His hands.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Jesus, Real

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• We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us today as Black Leaders representing the welfare of Black people. We won't follow any leader today who comes on the basis of political party. Both parties (Democrat and Republican) are controlled by the same people who have abused our rights, and who have deceived us with false promises every time an election rolls around.

  Malcolm X

  Party, Rights, Deceived Us

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• If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Lessons, Fool, Shame

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• If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.

  Roger Sherman

  President, Would Be, Select

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• He answered, "The woman whom You gave to be with me" (Gen 3:9-12), he did not say, "the woman deceived me," but "The woman whom You gave to me," as if he wanted to say: "This catastrophe has come upon me because of You." So it is, brethren, since Man is not accustomed to blame himself. He does not hesitate to consider even God as the cause of evil.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Humility, Men, Evil

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• One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Deceiving, Oneself

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• People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

  Caleb Carr

  People, Anxiety, Causes

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