Quotes About Self-deception

Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you trust, those you don't, those you can confide in and those whom you lie to. But of course the reality is that underneath it all, you are lying to yourself all the time.

Rereading has three strikes against it. It is time consuming. It doesn't result in durable memory. And it often involves a kind of unwitting self-deception, as growing familiarity with the text comes to feel like mastery of the content. The hours immersed in rereading can seem like due diligence, but the amount of study time is no measure of mastery.

You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it's all a tale told by an idiot

Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ëI have done nothing wrong.í

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ëThe Chaldeans will go away for good,í for they will not!

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.