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  • When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

    War   Men   Strategy  
    Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”
  • Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.

  • Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

    "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.
  • We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

    Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com
  • Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

  • Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as our misery comes from our belief, and not from the thing believed, it is necessary to be on the watch, so as not to be deceived by false guides. Sensation contains no intelligence or belief, but is a mere disturbance of the matter, called agitation, which produces mind, and is ready to receive the seed of error. Ever since man was created, there has been an element called error which has been busy inventing answers for every sensation.

    Health   Men   Errors  
  • My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

    Song: My Back Pages, Album: Another Side Of Bob Dylan
  • Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.309
  • One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

    Men   Spirit   Prison  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.385, Penguin
  • Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

    Life   Dream   Real  
    "The World of Mathematics". Book by James R. Newman, p. 1832, 1956.
  • The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

    Crush   Atheist   Lying  
    Albert Einstein (2015). “Relativity: The Special and the General Theory”, p.3, Princeton University Press
  • The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.

    Spiritual   War   America  
    "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, www.informationclearinghouse.info. April 30, 1967.
  • I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

    Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com
  • It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it.

    Spiritual   Wisdom   Mind  
  • No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

    Smart   Matter   Educated  
    "An Honest Liar". Documentary, www.imdb.com. April 18, 2014.
  • We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

    Would Be   Way   Given  
  • We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.

    Sheep   Years   People  
  • There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

  • There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory

    Heart   Gone   Able  
  • If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on which the imposture was detected, should be clearly and logically stated, that those who have been sincerely yet unfortunately deceived, may perceive the nature of the deception and be reclaimed, and that those who continue to publish the delusion, may be exposed and silenced.

  • Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.

    Mean   Men   Opposites  
    "The Flame is Green" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1971.
  • Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

    Thomas Paine (2016). “THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.213, e-artnow
  • What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

    Love   Life   Friendship  
  • If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

    Mother   Children   Eye  
  • It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

    Men   Agnostic   Deceived  
  • Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.

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  • There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

  • Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

    Vote   Wealth   Rich  
    "Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937". Book by Lucy Parsons, 2004.
  • It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

    Fall   Deceit   Firsts  
    Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.168
  • Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

    Life   Art   Order  
    William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36
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