The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
After cheating in a Relationship to self-deception are some Relationship again to be expected — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The human capacity for self-deception is very impressive, often showing breathtaking flights of creativity. —Jerry L. Horner, Daniel Seligman Research Associate” — Diana Delonzor Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
“The power of self deception is great in the case of all men, but I incline to think that it is greatest… — Herbert Hensley Henson Copy Share Image
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I just can't believe that there won't come a day when people won't be fed-up with being overfed. That they won't get… — Gudrun Ensslin Copy Share Image
The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away He's a songwriter, he got something to say He says, "People in… — Shannon McNally Copy Share Image
“To such perseverance in willful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, that if he persisted… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality - for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interpose… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products,… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Martel seems to point to the fact that most people are engaged in forms of self-deception or revisionist history, reworking the narrative… — Melissa A. Fitch Copy Share Image
“She thought men were saviors... ...And she looked for more in them than what they were... Only to rescue herself from those… — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
“ Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that," Himiko said,… — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
“For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“We might erroneously believe that maitri is a way to find a happiness that lasts; as advertisements so seductively promise, we could… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“But self-deception of this kind (ed persecution) cannot lead to any solid happiness. In the back of your mind you will know… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“philosophers have noted that people who habitually deceive finally fall for their own deceptions. This is the well-known phenomenon that confidence artists… — Joseph Agassi Copy Share Image
