Self Deception Quotes

96 quotes by 82 authors

• The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. — Pema Chodron
• People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics. — Vladimir Lenin
• If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense of… — David Brooks
• The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,… — Mark Twain
• At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change it. It is… — Nirmala Srivastava
• Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship… — James E. Faust
• The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication,… — Robin Marantz Henig
• It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. — Robert Motherwell
• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the… — Robert Motherwell
• Dont cross the stream to find water. — Norwegian Proverb
• Take the life...lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness. — Henrik Ibsen
• The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time getting into a match. The… — Jack Kramer
• The heart deceives, because it is never anything but the expression of the minds miscalculations I dont know what the heart is, not I: I… — Marquis De Sade
• Comparing oneself with Galileo or Einstein is certainly good for the ego, provided one refrains from going into too much detail. — John McCarthy
• I feel I am free but I know I am not. — E M Cioran
• After cheating in a Relationship to self-deception are some Relationship again to be expected — Mak_786

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 Robert Motherwell
• 3 Self Deception Quotes by Pema Chodron
• 3 Self Deception Quotes by Steven Pinker
• 3 Self Deception Quotes by Sam Harris
• 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 Aiden Wilson Tozer
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Karen Marie Moning
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Henrik Ibsen
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Carol Tavris
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Gregory Maguire
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Jack Kramer
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Pinchas Lapide
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Brennan Manning
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Marquis de Sade
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Errol Morris
• 1 Self Deception Quote by John McCarthy
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Robert Todd Carroll
• 1 Self Deception Quote by A. S. Byatt
• 1 Self Deception Quote by E M Cioran
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Plato
• 1 Self Deception Quote by James A. Baldwin
• 1 Self Deception Quote by Joan Didion