Saint Bernard

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

Saint

Victoria Moran

I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

American Writer

Carl Jung

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Swiss Psychologist

Janet Jackson

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

American Musician

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

French Writer

Sophie Swetchine

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Russian Author

Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Irish Poet

Taylor Caldwell

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

American Author

Bryant H. McGill

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Sebastian Franck

German Activist

Deceive has a negative connotation and implies dishonesty. Consider social or cultural context before using.

Context Matters

'Deceive oneself' means to believe in one's own lies or illusions.

Self-Deception

Deception doesn't always involve outright lies but can be through half-truths or omissions.

Subtlety

Emphasizes the deliberate nature of the action to falsely guide someone.

Intentional Misleading

Often used with actions involving fraud or illegal activity.

Fraudulent Connotation

The phrase 'deceive by omission' shows deception can happen by not revealing information.

Specificity

 And this was Henry's rule, he said, "Look, everyone is willing to give you something. They're ready to give you something for whatever it is they're hungry for." And that's the crux of it. If you don't want to be deceived, you have to know, what is it that you're hungry for? And we all kind of hate to admit it.

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 to begin again from the foundations. All his knowledge had come from his sensory perceptions of the world. Same as you, right? You know you're watching this video with your eyes, hearing it with your ears. Your senses show you the world as it is. They aren't deceiving you, but sometimes they do.

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 See what you think, do you want to hold that up for me? Hold that up, have a look at the shape of this poo it's very characteristic Very surprising what you might notice there is the definitive edges because that poo your eyes aren't deceiving you, that poo is cubed. It's cubed poo.

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 only appear blue because of the physics of light scattering. They say you have to see something with your own eyes to believe it. But nature shows that your eyes are easily deceived. We may not know why blue is so rare, but now we have to wonder, if you can't trust your own eyes,

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 also a storyteller she weaves powerful narratives except instead of doing it to show the truth to actually help make the world a better place she does it to deceive people I mean think about how pernicious she what she's doing is instead of

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 But for Heather, or deceived partners, it is essential to do things that bring back a sense of self-worth, to surround oneself with love and with friends and activities that give back joy and meaning and identity. But even more important,

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 because the chord he's looking for is this one, and instead he does Now, we call that a deceptive cadence, because it deceives us. I tell my students, "If you have a deceptive cadence, raise your eyebrows, and everybody will know."

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 animals bioluminesce to match the glow. Predators or prey looking up from below are deceived by this camoflauge, unable to see the creatures silhouette. Such otherworldly adaptations also arise from the need to locate

The otherworldly...

 Life is everywhere, absolutely everywhere. Everything you see in this picture is a living organism. Maybe not so the diver, but everything else. But this picture is very deceiving.

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 goliath is deceived the small male now displays a white stripe just like the real female to deter his advances