Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you."
Deceiving quotes
Deceiving
132 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"One is never deceived; one deceives oneself."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement."
Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth."
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"Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals."
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"Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men."
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"Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing."
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"Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us."
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"Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something."
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"It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us."
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"Reason deceives us; conscience, never."
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"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
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"Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses."
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"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]"
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"We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves."
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"Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once."
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"It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood."
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"A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived."
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"To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can."
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"It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power."
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"It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others."
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"It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them."
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"Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving."
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"Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave"
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