“Who do you think is lying to us?” Shevek demanded. Placid, Bedap met his gaze. “Who, brother? Who but ourselves?” — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves. — Russ Roberts Copy Share Image
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You only reveal your game plan when you know you're winning, or losing.” — Ahmed Mostafa 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
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
Comparing oneself with Galileo or Einstein is certainly good for the ego, provided one refrains from going into too much detail. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In a competition for mates, a well developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage, The same is true in politics and other… — John N. Gray Copy Share Image
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
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
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
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I… — John Gower Copy Share Image
Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak… — Eric Hoffer 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
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“She thought men were saviors... ...And she looked for more in them than what they were... Only to rescue herself from those… — Merrit Malloy 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
“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
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
“[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
“The realization that I cannot manipulate my feelings, that I can delude neither myself nor others, brought me immense relief and liberation.… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child 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
“I suspect that self-deception is similar to its cousins, overconfidence and optimism, and as with these other biases, it has both benefits… — Dan Ariely 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 ensnared by what he perceived to be his own Duty. A Duty that effervesced inside of him impatiently, dry at the mouth, shaking feverishly, and holding its breath in anticipation…” quote by Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/882/ashim-shanker-13588_blind-faith_he-seemed-to-possess-beneath-it-all-an-i_897968.jpg)
