Sentence examples for to be deceived from inspiring English sources

Appearances can be deceiving, but never more so when the observer is so eager to be deceived.

Or maybe, as Machiavelli observed, we humans "are so simple, and so much creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find someone ready to be deceived".

I will not accept to be deceived.

Stefhan urges me not to be deceived.

Perhaps it's human nature to want to be deceived.

But courts cannot permit themselves to be deceived.

But are they also more likely to be deceived themselves?

And the journalists who are happy to be deceived?

As the mathematician Blaise Pascal once said, "We want to be deceived".

God may have to allow us to be deceived to prevent even greater evils.

Data may be deceitful, but managers don't have to be deceived.