“Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves.” — Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team Copy Share Image
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. — Daniel S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.” — Wally Lamb We Are Water 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
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Of course, that rationalization didn't work at all. It would have helped if I'd had some Oreo cookie ice cream to eat… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
“The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society, art, culture, the whole of civilisation is… — Sven Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“So perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. As long as my personal narrative is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“We are quiet, contemplative people, and our behaviour in the field is relatively aristocratic. Running is not necessarily beneath our dignity but… — Fredrik Sjöberg Copy Share Image
“I am in good company, simply following those in front of me and knowing others are following behind. We are on our… — Sven Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.” — John Joclebs Bassey Copy Share Image
Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in. — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
“If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but...well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
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