Self Deception Quotes

96 quotes by 82 authors

• 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
• Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last… — Alice Miller
• The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness… — Eric Hoffer
• If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste… — Steven Pinker
• Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort. — Orrin Woodward
• First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think… — John F. Kennedy
• It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself. — Charles Caleb Colton
• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects. — Sam Harris
• Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued… — Sam Harris
• Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. — George Orwell
• Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. — Todd Solondz
• If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our… — Theodore C. Sorensen
• It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy
• I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. — S E Hinton
• The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. — Karen Horney
• If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth,… — Marcus Aurelius
• Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
• What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. — George Eliot
• There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations.… — Mortimer Adler

Who Wrote These Self Deception Quotes

82 authors contributed a total of 96 Self Deception Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 Self Deception Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 3 Self Deception Quotes by Steven Pinker
• 3 Self Deception Quotes by Sam Harris
• 3 Self Deception Quotes by Robert Motherwell
• 3 Self Deception Quotes by Pema Chodron
• 2 Self Deception Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2 Self Deception Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
• 2 Self Deception Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
• 1 Self Deception Quote by James E. Faust
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Phyllis Bottome
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Robin Marantz Henig
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Moss Hart
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Mak_786
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Alice Miller
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Saul Bellow
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Eric Hoffer
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Self Deception Quote by David Bohm
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Orrin Woodward
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Alexei Panshin
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Mason Cooley
• 1 Self Deception Quote by John F. Kennedy
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Carl Jung