Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“You're such a sucker for sweet talk that you'd lie with every scumbag who comes your way.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Thank you for undusting my true colors; or color: black... Oh, how I missed the darkness!” — Ahmed Mostafa 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
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
“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
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
“The power of self deception is great in the case of all men, but I incline to think that it is greatest… — Herbert Hensley Henson 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
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain 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
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
“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
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
“Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in… — Carl Jung 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
“There’s no greater perjury than self-deception. Lying to ourselves puts to death our definitive truth. Confronting the lies we’ve told ourselves, no… — Jason Versey 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
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Deceit or anything that involves self-deception is the source of corruption within an individual.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“I'd like to believe that my kiss has made you see me in a whole different light.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
“and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.” — John Joclebs Bassey Copy Share Image
“I hate that you think you're irreplaceable. Darling, you're actually upgradable.” — Ahmed Mostafa 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
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow 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
When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
“There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.” — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
