Inner self Quote by Naguib Mahfouz

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”

— Demosthenes

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”

— Demosthenes

“truth and falsehood mingle in life—and to what God builds, man adds his own decoration.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Is a man truly what he see himself to be?' 'Only if what he sees is true.”

— Lloyd Alexander

“There is not one true self hidden by many false ones. Rather, there is one true self hidden by many other true ones”

— Nathan Hill

“The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.”

— James Edwin Gunn

“The path of truth is profound—and so are the obstacles and possibilities for self-deception.”

— Chögyam Trungpa

“the easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself, for what a man wishes, he generally believes to be true!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

“Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as…

— Victor Hugo

“You can never be true to others, if you keep on lying to yourself.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“be true to yourself, and you can’t be false to anybody else, and”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr