Credit Quote by James Vila Blake

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself…

— Philip K. Dick

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

— Demosthenes

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

— Anonymous

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

— Said Nursi

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with…

— Demosthenes

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Our eyes are capable of deceiving us. We are even willing sometimes to let ourselves be deceived.

— Frenchqueen

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

— Charlotte Lennox