Subconsciously he knew why it was happening, but a truth…

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in…

— Mark Lawrence

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing…

— Mark Twain

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Martel seems to point to the fact that most people are engaged in forms of self-deception or revisionist history, reworking the narrative of their…

— Melissa A. Fitch

“Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.”

— Steve Maraboli

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into…

— Nicole Lyons

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

— George Eliot

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

— Anonymous

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without…

— David Bohm

I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all…

— Thomas Metzinger

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek…

— Vladimir Lenin

“The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality - for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interpose between himself…

— James Baldwin

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation,…

— Robin Marantz Henig