Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man…

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”

— Demosthenes

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each me wishes, that he also believes is true.”

— Demosthenes

“What a man wishes he generally believes to be true”

— Demosthenes

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

— Demosthenes

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

— Demosthenes

“When you fast-forward through life, you are likely to skip the vital parts. When you move in slow motion, the path becomes crystal clear.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man of action…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Engaging in meditative self-reflection and gaining increased control of inner experiences provides a person with a sense of control over fear and trembling and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

What a man wishes, he will believe.

— Demosthenes

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

— John Lilly

Only those things the heart believes are true.

— Vincent Starrett

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

— Gene Fowler

“the easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself, for what a man wishes, he generally believes to be true!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“You may not believe this. No one believes this, but it is true.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

— Samuel E. Morison