Acknowledge Quote by Pierre-Paul Grasse

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through…

— Socrates

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their…

— Benjamin Whichcote

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

— Jane Austen

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

— William Faulkner

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

— Maria Montessori

People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights…

— Gary A. Klein

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them.

— David Brooks

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

— Albert Bandura

If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing…

— Arthur Helps

“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of…

— Milan Kundera

“A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual…

— Anthon St. Maarten