Conscious mind Quote by D.R. Cozen

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

— Gertrude Atherton

Self-deception helps us deceive.

— David Livingstone

“Our minds have a great capacity for deception. This does not mean we are necessarily dishonest but if we are not careful, when our…

— David W. Earle

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.

— James Jesus Angleton

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often…

— Dalai Lama

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed…

— Carl Jung

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into…

— Jean Cocteau

“A man who lives apart, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In itself, the practice of deception is not…

— John le Carré

“Man's mind is made up of illusionary pictures. Consequently, when he throws away these pictures Truth will enter into his mind, and he will…

— Woo Myung

Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual…

— William Godwin

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to…

— George Orwell