None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. Baruch Spinoza
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. John Cheever
I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state. William L. Shirer
The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually. Julian Jaynes
Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone. Kodo Sawaki
Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself. French Proverb