Self deception Quote by Norwegian Proverb Download Open image “Dont cross the stream to find water.” — Norwegian Proverb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Self deception Water
Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream. — Donald Keough 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
