Deceiver Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord,…

— Louis MacNeice

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

— Mardy Grothe

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

— Demosthenes

Self-deception helps us deceive.

— David Livingstone

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

— Anonymous

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware…

— Stefan Zweig

To deceive ones selfe is very easie.

— George Herbert

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual…

— William Godwin

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to admit the…

— Adam Brody

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with…

— Demosthenes

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

— Daniel Goleman