When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products,… — Norm Phelps 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
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of… — Brennan Manning 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
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate… — Bhikkhu Analayo Copy Share Image
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. — Og Mandino 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
“[He] seemed to possess, beneath it all, an immutable sense of self-assurance, but in addition to that, the look of a man… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you… — Pascal Mercier 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 is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“If I hit that tree with this stone, Rousseau says, all will go well in my life from now on. He throws… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. — Philip Neri 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
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw -… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“philosophers have noted that people who habitually deceive finally fall for their own deceptions. This is the well-known phenomenon that confidence artists… — Joseph Agassi Copy Share Image
I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“You only reveal your game plan when you know you're winning, or losing.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
