Deception Quote by Carl Sagan

“The human capacity for self-deception is very impressive, often showing breathtaking flights of creativity.   —Jerry L. Horner, Daniel Seligman Research Associate”

— Diana Delonzor

The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is…

— Bhikkhu Analayo

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Self-deception helps us deceive.

— David Livingstone

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

— Gertrude Atherton

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

— Michael Novak

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

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

— Ben Aaronovitch

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit…

— Joan Didion

Though deception is seen as an attack upon the other, deception is a tool of emotional suicide of oneself.

— Anonymous

Deception is often an outcome of an unexpected negative perception.

— Lord Jack Kabasu

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