It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I submit that style, too, is an answer to a common want; but not so much to formulated problems as to felt… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.” — Genevieve Ross Copy Share Image
“The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still.” — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
There are certain ways you have to delude yourself. Self-delusion is important, for instance in family life. You know what I mean?… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public.… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the strongest heart is the weakest. The boldest person is the most coward. The outside of you can't define what you… — Tresa Sebastian Copy Share Image
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Do not make passion an argument for truth! - O you good-natured and even noble enthusiasts, I know you! You want to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“A veteran, calm and assured, he pauses for a well-measured moment in the doorway of the office and then, boldly, clearly, with… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed… — Eric T. Benoit Copy Share Image
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
