Quotes About Self-deception

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't.

A man who cheats, cheats only himself.

And then I think that while America was busy patting itself on the back and beating its chest,

She liked to 'leave dishes to soak', an act of self-deception that I've always abhorred.

One thing I've learned is that just because you can successfully lie to yourself doesn't mean you're not completely transparent to the people you love.

Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.

When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.

You can lie to yourself, say that you never had a choice, that you weren't cut out for this. But deep down you'll know. You'll know that humans aren't cut out for anything. We cut ourselves out. Slowly, with a rusty knife.

The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear

At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we "don't know" what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn't. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

I'm fine." Oh, how we love and overuse fine, our all-purpose little evasion. Fine means not fine. Fine means Pity me. Fine means Don't ask.

The person you can most easily mislead is yourself.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

LEXI: I'd settled for this awful existence because I'd convinced myself it was better than being alone....But it's not.

A fool thinks that he can cheat others, but a prudent man knows that he can only cheat himself.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

When clients think they are helpless, that some strange mysterious force is at work overpowering them, and they say that I Corinthians 10:13 does not apply to their case, the truth may be that they are not serious about wanting to do the Lord's will. They may be talking out of both sides of their mouths. They may deceive others or even themselves, in part, about the sincerity of their desire to obey God.

We're not number one, but we're number one in thinking we are number one.