For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.

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.

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.

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

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.

He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness, his inferiors take advantage of his abilities.

Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially name-calling. 'You're dangerous!' 'Deceived.' 'A false prophet.' 'A compromiser!' Charges like these by young-earth leaders, both spoken and implied, are intended to discredit, maim, and crush old-earth advocates, including me.

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

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived.

I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.