Quotes About Self-deception

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

Lie to yourself until it's true.

I don't trip bout being lied to, Hell 9/10 I'm lying to you my damn self! Can't get mad if I'm doing it lol.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

Self-deception, sometimes called self-sabotage kills dreams faster than deception from others.

Does anyone ever lie to us more than we lie to ourselves?

Don't deceive yourself with you age, it is just a number.

He who thinks to deceive God has already deceived himself.

The fool calls everyone around him a fool and everyone around the fool calls the fool a fool.

when a person says that he believes in the absolute sovereignty of God but then denies the sovereignty of God when it comes to certain things, creatures, and events, he deceives himself. He does not really assent to the absolute sovereignty of God.

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: "He is the one." But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

Isn't it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you "deserve" the wrong ones? It's highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

all men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves—they are the rulers of Men

We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.

You can only believe so many lies before becoming one of them.

Ajencis," he continued, "once wrote that all men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves—they are the rulers of Men . . .

To see what was unseen was to understand that blindness was always a matter of degree. To say that all men were blind in some respect—to the machinations of others, to themselves—was a truism scarcely worth noting. What was astounding was the way this truism perpetually escaped Men, the way they confused seeing mere slivers with seeing everything they needed to see.