Self Deception Quotes
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Sometimes her capacity for self-deception disturbed her.
— Mary Balogh
Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism.
— William T. Vollmann
The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception
— Robert Todd Carroll
I'm not the person I used to be. I never was.
— Marty Rubin
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Who do you think is lying to us?" Shevek demanded. Placid, Bedap met his gaze. "Who, brother? Who but ourselves? — Ursula K. Le Guin
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
— Fulke Greville
They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.
— Frank Herbert
Self-deception helps us deceive.
— David Livingstone
If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong
— Gordon Livingston
The best lies about me are the ones I told.
— Patrick Rothfuss
It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not deceive yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
— Scott Kahn
Self-deception fools all of the people all of the time.
— Marty Rubin
Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge.We like to fool ourselves. — Russ Roberts
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
— Andre Malraux
You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.
— Erich Maria Remarque
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
— George Eliot
Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A genius is no more - and no less - than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.
— Neel Burton
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
— Robert Motherwell
A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.
— Marty Rubin
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
— Ashim Shanker
Any advice which does not lead to self-improvement is misleading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.
— Michel Templet
We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived.
— Billy Graham
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true. — Demosthenes
When my wits fail me, I resort to self-deception.
— Dean Koontz
You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.
— Jodi Picoult
and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception
— Arthur Koestler
The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
— Pema Chodron
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.
— Colin Wilson
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
— Carl Sagan
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
— Cees Nooteboom
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
— Flannery O'Connor
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
— Stephen King
Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits
— Michael Novak
Reality denied comes back to haunt.
— Philip K. Dick
It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake
— Antonia Fraser
Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.
— Orrin Woodward
To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.
— Cortney S. Warren
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
— Todd Solondz
Beware of becoming a pawn in your own game.
— Marty Rubin
If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.
— Neel Burton
One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.
— Cortney S. Warren
Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
— Idries Shah
Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.
— Dean Koontz
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
— Criss Jami
The key method of self-deception about your salvation is to avoid self-examination about the state of your life. The
— Gregory Forster
Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception
— Sunday Adelaja
The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
— Shannon L. Alder
The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.
— Cortney S. Warren
The path of truth is profound - and so are the obstacles and possibilities for self-deception.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Food, clothing and shelter - these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
— Mahatma Gandhi
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
— Gregory Maguire
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.
— Christian Scriver
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.
— Mason Cooley
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
— S.E. Hinton
Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.
— Marty Rubin
It's always the 'others' who are deceived.
— Marty Rubin
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
No prize , however great can justify an ounce of self deception or a small departure of the ugly facts. ( Notes from Underground)
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Odd how people interested in religion spend so much time trying to convert the obvious meaning of their texts that are their authority.
— Nanamoli Thera
No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.
— Bertrand Russell
Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.
— Hannah More
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
— Vladimir Lenin
The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
— Gertrude Atherton
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
— Marcus Aurelius
