Quotes About Self-deception

Men certainly speak peace to themselves when their so doing is not attended with the greatest detestation imaginable of that sin in reference whereunto they do speak peace to themselves, and abhorrency of themselves for it.

Omul este singurul parazit care-È™i preg?teÈ™te capcana, îi pune momeala, apoi calc? de bun?voie în ea.

Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.

We're only cheating ourselves when we don't live the life God has for us.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Something I dislike is you not being true to yourself. That's why we not cool.

for it is not only by dint of lying to other people, but also by lying to oneself that one ceases to be aware that one is lying,

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. Richard Bach

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

The fool who knows he is a fool is for that very reason wise. The fool who thinks himself wise is the greatest fool of all.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

The key to building distance in the long run is the ability of the mind to lie to the body — and be convincing.