Self Delusion Quotes
39 quotes by 38 authors
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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation…
— Jimmy Carter
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The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased…
— E. O. Wilson
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A form of self-delusion.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
— Daniel S. Greenberg
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It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion
— Calvin Coolidge
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The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority…
— George Galloway
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The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.
— Michael Shermer
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If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard…
— Max Scheler
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Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
— Irving Layton
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and…
— James Russell Lowell
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When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic." 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive humility; (2) Give…
— Choa Kok Sui
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I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
— Marcus Aurelius
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People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values.…
— Kenny Smith
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It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for…
— Calvin Coolidge
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We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued…
— Jim Rohn
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I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would…
— Glenn Reynolds
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A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.
— H. L. Mencken
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Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.
— Robert Ardrey
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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
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We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.
— John Ralston Saul
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