I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Most men think well of themselves, and this is self-delusion. Vain” — John Wortabet Copy Share Image
We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I submit that style, too, is an answer to a common want; but not so much to formulated problems as to felt… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“It is a skill in its own right, one that requires the highest degree of technical ability, personal honesty and sober thought.… — Ray Mears Copy Share Image
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“I am in good company, simply following those in front of me and knowing others are following behind. We are on our… — Sven Lindqvist Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Do not make passion an argument for truth! - O you good-natured and even noble enthusiasts, I know you! You want to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Too many companies— and individuals— are befuddled by delusion when it comes to identifying their authentic strengths and projecting those strengths through… — Tom Hayes Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There are certain ways you have to delude yourself. Self-delusion is important, for instance in family life. You know what I mean?… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. — Daniel S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
