Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"One is never deceived; one deceives oneself."
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Deceived
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Said Nursi
Theologian
"The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived."
Ed Parker
Martial Artist, Author
"To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived."
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"No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it."
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"For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived."
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"Love believes all things and yet is never deceived."
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"We like to be deceived."
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"Who naught suspects is easily deceived."
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"Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward."
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"
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"It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them."
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"The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth."
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"No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here."
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"The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived."
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"There is none deceived but he that trusts."
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"None are deceived but they that confide."
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"The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived."
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"The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others."
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"The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others."
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"To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it."
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"I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you."
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"Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods."
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"It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us."
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