Bonfire Quote by Darin Strauss

Though deception is seen as an attack upon the other, deception is a tool of emotional suicide of oneself.

— Anonymous

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware…

— Stefan Zweig

Self-deception helps us deceive.

— David Livingstone

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

— George Harrison

Deception is often an outcome of an unexpected negative perception.

— Lord Jack Kabasu

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

— Anonymous

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not…

— Kim Chernin

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

— Elizabeth I

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

— Robert Silverberg

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

— Russ Roberts

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

— Plato

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

— James Jesus Angleton