Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“You only reveal your game plan when you know you're winning, or losing.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or… — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image
“The Soul Toupee is that thing about ourselves we are most deeply embarrassed by and like to think we have cunningly concealed… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
I just can't believe that there won't come a day when people won't be fed-up with being overfed. That they won't get… — Gudrun Ensslin Copy Share Image
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
“The human capacity for self-deception is very impressive, often showing breathtaking flights of creativity. —Jerry L. Horner, Daniel Seligman Research Associate” — Diana Delonzor Copy Share Image
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality - for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interpose… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away He's a songwriter, he got something to say He says, "People in… — Shannon McNally Copy Share Image
“Martel seems to point to the fact that most people are engaged in forms of self-deception or revisionist history, reworking the narrative… — Melissa A. Fitch Copy Share Image
The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Art altogether is nothing but a survival skill, we should never lose sight of this fact, it is, time and again, just… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The mind is capable of amazing feats of self-deception in order to keep its fragile ego intact. My” — Nat Kozinn Copy Share Image
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream,… — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
Self-deception, sometimes called self-sabotage kills dreams faster than deception from others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense.” —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS,” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
