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
When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the strangest thing about this illusion of control is not that it happens but that it seems to confer many of… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so its no problem for me to believe that Im somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with. — Alexei Panshin 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
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
When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire. — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
