Deceiving Quote by Mardy Grothe

Self-deception helps us deceive.

— David Livingstone

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

— Sidney Jourard

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

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Demosthenes

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

— Mark Twain

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

— Philip Sidney

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