“Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves.” — Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team Copy Share Image
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. — Paul Sweeney Copy Share Image
“I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.” — Genevieve Ross Copy Share Image
“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.” — John Joclebs Bassey Copy Share Image
If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Oh, wait a minute, I was supposed to be cutting back on the self-delusion, wasn't I? Whoops.” — Jason Krumbine Copy Share Image
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
“It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots." - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium” — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so its no problem for me to believe that Im somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Of course, that rationalization didn't work at all. It would have helped if I'd had some Oreo cookie ice cream to eat… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate… — Edwin Percy Whipple 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
“Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed… — Eric T. Benoit Copy Share Image
When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity,… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“We are quiet, contemplative people, and our behaviour in the field is relatively aristocratic. Running is not necessarily beneath our dignity but… — Fredrik Sjöberg Copy Share Image
“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic." 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive… — Choa Kok Sui Copy Share Image
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.” — Wally Lamb We Are Water Copy Share Image
“Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still.” — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
“Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the… — Danail Hristov Copy Share Image
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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