Self Delusion Quotes

Self Delusion Quote of the day

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Humans see what they want to see.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

History is the lies of the victors.

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves.

There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion.

Immortality entails not invincibility.

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.

I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.

Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness.

Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p