Self deception Quote by Luke Montgomery Download Open image ““Subconsciously he knew why it was happening, but a truth suppressed is a reality ignored.”” — Luke Montgomery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Self deception Truth
“I hoped he would believe nothing happened. Not that it did. Of this I was painfully aware.” — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
“No. That you shouldn’t deny a reality just because you don’t have the evidence for it yet.” — Eva García Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“My mind was getting away from reality again, and I reluctantly drew it back in. There is no getting away from reality.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
“He told it as he saw it. His way of lying was to remain silent.” — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“you shouldn’t deny a reality just because you don’t have the evidence for it yet.” — Eva García Sáenz Copy Share Image
“He knew it was not the truth. But it was shaped like the truth.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“They probably didn't care if it was the real thing or not. They wanted it to be. And by suspending their disbelief they could… — Alexandra Potter Copy Share Image
“His breathing was labored. His eyes were closed. But I was convinced that he was seeing everything. That he was seeing the truth in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.” — Luke Montgomery Copy Share Image
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image