Quotes About Self-deception

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

Everyone have two faces, but mine are twins.

The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.

The foolish coyote faith that could keep you flying as long as you kept kidding yourself that you could fly.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

For more than twenty years, the bond market's complexity had helped the Wall Street bond trader to deceive the Wall Street customer. It was now leading the bond trader to deceive himself.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong.

We are nothing but lies, duplicity, contradiction, and we hide and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

I suppose about the only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

The truth is that we are all inclined to flatter our- sclvcs-despite our daily experience to the contrary-that we spend our time thinking logical, consecutive thoughts. In fact, most of us do no such thing.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

And I, love, am a pathological liar.

Mirrors can kill and talk, they are terrible rooms

What you've been living on is an image of Celia Which you made for yourself, to meet your own needs.

Who is a bigger idiot than the man who believes the lies he tells himself?

I needed to understand that maybe sometimes we go through life seeing only what we want to see.

I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

Entonces, todavía, no podía o no quería darme cuenta. Pero, ahora, sé muy bien que todo aquello era una simple forma de ocupar el día en lo que fuera, una manera de mentirle al cielo y a mí mismo para tratar de no pensar, para tratar de no volverme loco antes de tiempo.

Aidi nodded. "Lying to yourself's always a problem," he said.

We take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.

Ä°nsan?n en büyük dalkavuÄŸu kendisidir, bu dalkavukluktan kurtulman?n en iyi yolu da bir dostun içtenliÄŸidir.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.