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

- Emile M. Cioran

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

- Ignatius of Antioch

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

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

- Giacomo Casanova

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

- Frank Crane

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

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

- Eliza Cook

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

- Aristotle

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

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

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

- Casey Affleck

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

- Confucius

Do not be deceived by impostors.

- Clayton Christensen

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

- Billy Graham

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Ben Jonson