Fooling Yourself Quotes

Fooling Yourself Quote of the day

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

If you have to use the words, “deep down” all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.

Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.

It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.