85 Quotes About Deceived

Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.

How often have we taken up arms in some crusade that appeared so impeccably brilliant, indisputably praiseworthy, and immeasurably grand that we came to believe that the crusade itself transcended all of the truth that would show it to be none of those things? And in the end, how many times were the arms that we took up in such a crusade discharged in our direction?

Of course, I would encourage you to be your god. But before you do, you might want to look around at all the other people who were their own gods and realize that they were not enough of whatever a ‘god’ is to save themselves from the destruction of their own divinity.

When you used to think so highly of someone and then one day realize you were blind to things that screamed 'not a person of honorable character at all.'

People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.

To incessantly define ‘where we’re at’ as a means of convincing ourselves that we know ‘where we’re at’ suggests that we’re lost about being lost. And while the wilderness of life is teeming with these kinds of people, I have to make certain that I never enter the woods.

Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we’re going to stay lost.

We are not typically supporters of some cause for the greater good, although those are the words that we brazenly scrawl across the banners that we energetically wave in this self-serving parade of ours. Rather, behind the glorious pomp of such sacrificial notions, we are in fact supporters of our own greater good. And when we confuse the greater good with our own greater good, we have irrefutably sentenced the greater good to the greatest death imaginable.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.