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title: "22 Deluding Quotes by 22 authors"
description: "Browse 22 Deluding quotes by 22 authors. Discover the best Deluding sayings and thoughts."
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> [Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lebron-james/be-doers-of-the-word-and-not-hearers-only-deluding-yourselves/)

[LeBron James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lebron-james/)

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> [“Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/star-trek-the-next-generation-episode-guide-team/deanna-s-job-as-counselor-is-to-keep-us-from-deluding-ourselves/)

[Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/star-trek-the-next-generation-episode-guide-team/)

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> [People who believe their critical faculties can help them find moral truth are deluding themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-mearsheimer/people-who-believe-their-critical-faculties-can-help-them-find-moral/)

[John Mearsheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-mearsheimer/)

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> [“I was deluding myself, for love was one thing but desire was something else entirely.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-boyne/i-was-deluding-myself-for-love-was-one-thing-but-desire-was-something/)

[John Boyne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-boyne/)

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> [To pretend that there is no such thing as the Muslim world is specious, self-deluding, and - frankly - plain silly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mehdi-hasan/to-pretend-that-there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-muslim-world-is/)

[Mehdi Hasan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mehdi-hasan/)

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> [“If I had imagined for one second that I could believe in love, I saw now that I'd been deluding myself. Because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-cronin/if-i-had-imagined-for-one-second-that-i-could-believe-in-love-i-saw/)

[Ali Cronin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-cronin/)

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> [If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-calvin/if-people-mean-that-man-has-in-himself-the-power-to-work-in/)

[John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-calvin/)

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> [Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osama-bin-laden/even-as-you-enter-the-fourth-year-after-the-sept-11-attacks-bush-is/)

[Osama bin Laden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osama-bin-laden/)

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> [“Hell's bells, Morty," I said. "Next you'll be telling me that I didn't even meet his shade. That I deluded myself into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-butcher/hell-s-bells-morty-i-said-next-you-ll-be-telling-me-that-i-didn-t/)

[Jim Butcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-butcher/)

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> [We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dallas-willard/we-have-churches-full-of-people-who-profess-all-kinds-of-stuff-that/)

[Dallas Willard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dallas-willard/)

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> [All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/all-the-fifty-years-of-conscious-brooding-have-brought-me-no-closer/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“Don’t we deserve a little peace?” I pull her back to me, deluding myself into thinking that if I can just hug…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alyson-noel/don-t-we-deserve-a-little-peace-i-pull-her-back-to-me-deluding-myself/)

[Alyson Noel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alyson-noel/)

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> [“Which was why he hadn’t voted since the early ‘90s. Why anyone who placed faith in their elected representatives to “save the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-england/which-was-why-he-hadn-t-voted-since-the-early-90s-why-anyone-who/)

[Stephen England](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-england/)

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> [“You’re deluding yourself if you think you can know who I am or what I want from spying on me in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chloe-jacobs/you-re-deluding-yourself-if-you-think-you-can-know-who-i-am-or-what-i/)

[Chloe Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chloe-jacobs/)

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> [“Image of an image of an image... But to record all the dips and upswings, in a sense falsifies them, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/image-of-an-image-of-an-image-but-to-record-all-the-dips-and-upswings/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [“But here's the biggest head-scratcher of all: Not only are atheists destroying our country, they're completely deluding themselves. There's simply no way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-colbert/but-here-s-the-biggest-head-scratcher-of-all-not-only-are-atheists/)

[Stephen Colbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-colbert/)

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> [Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/since-i-move-about-with-you-eat-like-you-and-talk-with-you-you-are/)

[Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/)

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> [There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edie-falco/there-were-a-lot-of-times-i-wondered-if-i-was-deluding-myself-i-had/)

[Edie Falco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edie-falco/)

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> [American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-g-wilson/american-seekers-of-happiness-are-in-danger-of-deluding-themselves/)

[Eric G. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-g-wilson/)

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> [“Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-garvin/most-humans-turn-away-from-god-simply-for-the-privilege-of-deluding/)

[Dennis Garvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-garvin/)

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> [“Anyone who can't forgive someone else for screwing up is deluding themselves. Because we've all made mistakes every bit as bad. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-w-robertson/anyone-who-can-t-forgive-someone-else-for-screwing-up-is-deluding/)

[Edward W. Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-w-robertson/)

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> [If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beau-willimon/if-you-really-think-that-ambition-power-lust-desire-are-not-as/)

[Beau Willimon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beau-willimon/)

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