Able Quote by Mark Twain

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

— Mardy Grothe

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

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

— Anonymous

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

— Samuel Johnson

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“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 does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those…

— Anonymous

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

— Demosthenes

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld