Believe Quote by Colin Wilson

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…

— Bhikkhu Analayo

Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms…

— Barbara Tuchman

“We might erroneously believe that maitri is a way to find a happiness that lasts; as advertisements so seductively promise, we could feel great…

— Pema Chödrön

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and…

— Franz Grillparzer

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

— Charles Caleb Colton

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

— Mardy Grothe

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

— Moss Hart

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

— Carl Sagan

“philosophers have noted that people who habitually deceive finally fall for their own deceptions. This is the well-known phenomenon that confidence artists appeal to…

— Joseph Agassi

“Deceit or anything that involves self-deception is the source of corruption within an individual.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo