Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
Abu Bakr
I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.
Alan Arkin
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
Alan Turing
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.
Alicia Silverstone
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
Alma Gluck
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
Antoine Lavoisier
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
As alleged, David Hu directed a multimillion-dollar, years-long scheme to defraud investors. Putting profit ahead of his fiduciary duties, Hu allegedly mismarked millions of dollars of loan assets to cover up millions in losses. Hu also created fake entities and loans, and falsified paperwork to deceive auditors and avoid detection.
Audrey Strauss
As alleged, the most senior executives at Brixmor engaged in a years-long scheme to cook the books and deceive the investing public.
Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.
Barton Gellman
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Ben Jonson
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Benjamin Franklin
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
Bernard Baruch
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
Bianca Jagger
My heart aches for America and its deceived people.
Billy Graham
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Bo Bennett
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
Bodhidharma
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
Bridget Riley
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
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.
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.
Do not be deceived by impostors.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
Every day seems to bring news about another for-profit college scam. Hundreds of thousands of students have been deceived, misled, and harassed into enrolling at these schools where they end up with a mountain of debt and a worthless degree.
Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.
For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.
The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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.
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.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
