Self Deception Quotes

Self Deception Quote of the day

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.

You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make

A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.

Ignorance leads to leaving in self-deception.

The drinking parent lied to the sober parent

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.

When you are the problem, it's hard to see it.

If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.

At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.

Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?

A genius is no more—and no less—than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.

Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception

You only reveal your game plan when you know you're winning, or losing.

I'd like to believe that my kiss has made you see me in a whole different light.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’

Any casual observer can tell at a glance I'm not the person I think I am.

Lie long enough and eventually you'll believe yourself.

The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.