Self Delusion Quotes

39 Self Delusion quotes by 38 unique authors

• Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only… — Richard Matheson
• If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan
• Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality. — John Twelve Hawks
• I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless. — John Steinbeck
• What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd… — Julian Barnes
• Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust and… — Richard Yates
• The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of… — Richard Dawkins
• Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of… — Dan Simmons
• That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. — Brandon Sanderson
• I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's… — Khaled Hosseini
• Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is. — Douglas Coupland
• Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. — Paul Sweeney
• When we are high on our ego we are suffering from self-delusion, and self-delusion always leads to confusion and turmoil. Therefore respect your own emotion… — Anil SInha
• Sometimes the strongest heart is the weakest. The boldest person is the most coward. The outside of you can't define what you are from inside.… — Tresa Sebastian

Who Wrote These Self Delusion Quotes

38 authors contributed a total of 39 Self Delusion Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Self Delusion Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by William Hazlitt
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Voltaire
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Tresa Sebastian
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Terry Gross
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Ronald Reagan
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Robert Ardrey
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Richard Yates
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Richard Matheson
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Richard Dawkins
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Paul Sweeney
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Michael Shermer
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Max Scheler
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Marcus Aurelius
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Lynn Margulis
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Khaled Hosseini
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Kenny Smith
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Julian Barnes
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by John Twelve Hawks
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by John Steinbeck
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by John Ralston Saul
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Jimmy Carter
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by Jim Rohn
• 1 Self Delusion Quote by James Russell Lowell