Quotes About Self-deception

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

Men tend to carry their honesty in pigeonholes, Jean Louise. They can be perfectly honest in some ways and fool themselves in other ways.

Los hombres tienen tendencia a clasificar su honradez por casilleros, Jean Louise. Pueden ser perfectamente honestos en ciertos aspectos y engañarse a sí mismos en otros.

Men tend to carry their honesty in pigeonholes. They can be perfectly honest in some ways and fool themselves in other ways.

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

Nobody is easier to fool than the person who is convinced that he is right

Nobody's easier to fool, Ushikawa thought, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.

None of them seriously believed the stories they told themselves about themselves.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

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

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.