Self Deception Quotes

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion… — David Bohm
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 for self-deception are… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. — Samuel Johnson
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. — Mason Cooley
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is… — Pema Chodron
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. — Edward Benson
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 honest… — Bhikkhu Analayo
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not… — Philip Warren Anderson
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter… — Alexander Cockburn
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred. — Carl Sagan
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in… — Robert A. Heinlein
Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of their thoughts. The… — Robert A. Burton
The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads… — Max Stirner
In all of history, we have found just one cure for errorâ€”a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception.… — David Brin
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of… — Nelson Algren
It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self. — Friedrich Nietzsche
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out… — Vladimir Lenin

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